The federal government also chooses not to enforce it where states have legalized it (though I've heard of a few raids, if they wanted to shut it down it'd be shut down) because it'd be a huge huge state rights vs federal rights battle
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the federal government is the one that told states they're allowed to legalize/decriminalize it at their own desecration, they just need to regulate it themselves.
how does this work in relation to the marijuana laws then? as far as i know, marijuana is still illegal at the federal level, but many states are making their own laws and not enforcing the federal ban. what's different about a supreme court ruling that the individual states can't go against it?
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rutab, the Supreme Court interprets the constitution of the united states for the sake of clarifying "legal grey areas". IT is the sole institution in the U.S with this power. If SCOTUS determines that the constitution disallows banning gay marriage, (which it has) then any attempts to ban gay marriage or stop gays from marrying each other will be seen as illegal in the eyes of the law.
The supreme court basically is saying it's protected in the Constitution
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There is a case though and I'm not sure if the states would win or lose, but I bet they could win. Jim Crow laws are way more blackboard discrimination than a ban on same-sex marriage even though they're both a form of discrimination. It's still really early into the revocation of the ban so we'll see how things work out.
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that's like saying legally states can go to court and bring back jim crow laws, they cannot. And more importantly they would not even try
i dont know the exact specifics, but no, they can't. it's a removal of a ban that is considered discriminatory, so attempting to repeal / revoke the right will result in law suits / victims of discrimination. something something amendment something something.
no, that's not how it works. if a county refuses gay marriage, they can take it to court and almost definitely win the case
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I'm pretty sure legally the states can win if they want to revoke same-sex marriage rights because technically they're protected under the 10th amendment to regulate any issue not outlined in the Constitution
i'm just saying don't forget that there's other things going on such as 4 black churches were burnt in multiple states. please don't forget people who have homophobic / transphobic / racist parents. just don't forget about it, thank you im gay too and i'm happy about this but i'm pretty worried about POC getting slaughtered at the moment .. lol
i'm happy for this and all but white (and gays lol) straights always speak over us. they always do. they always speak over poc, obviously, because they are white straight people celebrating? uh. cool. but you should probably be focusing on not murdering trans women. i don't mean to be a downer but changing an icon on a social networking sign to a rainbow isn't. going to change anything in the LGBT community, at all. this isn't the end of our struggles in this world at all but it's a nice change now can we start stop murdering trans women
You don't understand what version of life I'm using
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I don't think you know how birth works.
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Not planning on sticking around for long - just wanted to apologize anyone I've ever offended as we can all celebrate a leap forward in human rights, but thank you!
Same Sex Marriage/USA
