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I did not qoute this with my question
Is the idea of gay marriage propaganda?
Or is it the law of the land.?
If it is law how did this take place?
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Mayzoo
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On constitutional matters, yes. If a state makes a law that violates a person or a group of peoples' constitutional rights (ie: women can't become police officers, black people can't drive at night, Christians can't drink alcohol on Sundays, etc.....), then a person or a group of people can (after going through lower courts) appeal to the Supreme Court to hear their case and decide if the law made is constitutional. One of three things will then happen.
1. The supreme court finds the law constitutional, so the law, and all just like it, stand.
2. The supreme court finds the law unconstitutional, so the law, and all just like it, are revoked.
3. The supreme court refuses to hear the case, so the last court to have ruled opinion is what stands.
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Mayzoo
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In the United States, any homosexual couple may marry so long as they met the other requirements of their state (age, distance of or no blood relationship, etc..). The Supreme Court reviewed specific state laws about same sex marriage. They decided it was unconstitutional for a state to discriminate with regard to marriage solely based on gender.
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smaneck
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Seriously? You think the President made immigrants into automatic citizens? Can you point to even one instance where he did this? Evidence from a reliable source please.
Last I heard it was the Supreme Court that legalized gay marriages not the President.
He hasn't made any guns laws. What he has done is close some loopholes on the enforcement of existing laws. In other words he has ordered the ATF to make sure all guns are properly registered and licensed as the law requires.
We didn't.
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One issue beyond the executive orders is the growing severity of them and overall concentration of power in the executive branch. Congress has been giving pieces of its power away for decades and just now is starting to bemoan the fact.
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Executive Orders have existed since the founding of the nation. However I think the only major case law that limits them is the Steel Seizure Case in 1952.
For the first, people who immigrated here illegally were not granted citizenship. Instead those who fit certain requirements were placed lower on a list of priority for enforcement of immigration laws, which is a legitimtate executive decision. Because it is just a enforcement regulation, it can easily be reversed.
The second as was already explained was done by action of the Supreme Court which found that it was unconstitutional to use gender as the only criteria to determine if somebody could marry.
I'm reserving final judgement on the current action until it is published and I can read it, but it seems to fall firmly within the Youngstown framework. Wikipedia has a pretty good summary of that framework
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