{"id":49740,"date":"2015-03-04T06:26:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T13:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/alabama-supreme-court-longs-for-the-50s-the-1850s.html"},"modified":"2015-05-12T05:45:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:45:41","slug":"alabama-supreme-court-longs-for-the-50s-the-1850s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/alabama-supreme-court-longs-for-the-50s-the-1850s.html","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Supreme Court longs for the 50s. The 1850s"},"content":{"rendered":"

"Federal court rulings? We don't need no stinking federal court rulings!" Because state nullification worked so well last<\/i> time.<\/p>\n

And for such (pardon me) bullshit rationales:<\/p>\n

The Alabama court ruled state bans on gay marriage aren't discriminatory since they ban both men and women from marrying people of the same sex, and it said the laws have a rational basis because they are meant to recognize and encourage ties "between children and their biological parents."<\/i><\/p>\n

And laws against blacks and whites intermarrying weren't discriminatory because they applied to all<\/i> blacks and whites. And, in a surprise move, Alabama will halting all adoption proceedings, too, _and_ requiring all new marriages to show offspring within two years or be declared null and void.<\/p>\n

Yeesh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAlabama Supreme Court halts gay-marriage licenses<\/a><\/span>
\nThe Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the state’s probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, saying a previous federal ruling that gay-marriage bans violate the U.S. Constitution does not preclude them from following state law, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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"Federal court rulings? We don't need no stinking federal court rulings!" Because state nullification worked so well last time. And for such (pardon me) bullshit rationales: The Alabama court ruled state bans on gay marriage aren't discriminatory since they ban both men and women from marrying people of the same sex, and it said the … Continue reading “Alabama Supreme Court longs for the 50s. 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