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Originally Posted by Guest
So, it is okay if a state were to change their laws and once again make it illegal for people of different races to marry? For some odd reason, I thought this fell under civil rights, not state rights. Miscegenation was against the law in several states. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down those laws. Many felt that such marriages were an obscenity and did their best to prevent these marriages, including county clerks refusing to sign the marriage certificates. I see no difference between the Court allowing same sex marriage today and allowing mixed race marriages in the past. there are times when civil rights should trump state rights. That's one of the reasons there was a civil war here.
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What's civil rights have to do with this? That doesn't even make sense. If the definition of marriage (not civil union) is a man and a woman, then no one is having their rights trampled upon. Almost all religions believe that homosexual behavior is deviant behavior. And since the majority of America is religious and not atheist, then that should hold some water.
If this state documents a requirement that marriage licenses must be issued to one man and one woman, then she is right in performing her duty. If this is so, then she has been falsely arrested, and will be vindicated. That is, IF politics and political correctness doesn't win out, and justice prevails.