By FITSNEWS || Another day, another judge ruling on the issue of gay marriage …
This time it’s U.S. District Court judge Richard Gergel – who ruled that a lesbian couple in Charleston County, S.C. can legally marry thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s failure to overturn a fourth circuit ruling striking down Virginia’s gay marriage ban.
According to Gergel, South Carolina’s gay marriage ban – approved by voters in 2006 – is also unconstitutional. And barring a successful appeal from S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Gergel’s ruling means gay marriages could begin in the Palmetto State as soon as November 20.
South Carolina is currently the only state in the fourth circuit blocking gay marriages.
In addition to the fourth circuit ruling on the Virginia ban, a separate challenge to South Carolina’s gay marriage ban is currently pending before U.S. District Court judge Michelle Childs – a case involving a female Highway Patrol trooper Katherine Bradacs and her partner, Tracie Goodwin.
Bradacs and Goodwin were married in another state, but are suing South Carolina for its failure to recognize their union.
In addition to these cases, there’s a sixth circuit ruling which upholds the rights of states like South Carolina to ban gay marriage – meaning this issue is likely headed back to the U.S. Supreme Court (which will have to rule on it this time).
This website’s oft-stated view on this issue is abundantly clear: No government – local, state or federal – should have the ability to ban (or compel) marriage, gay or straight. Or plural, for that matter. That’s because marriage isn’t a government institution, it’s a religious one – meaning the question should be left to individual congregations.
As for civil unions, we believe the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment compels government to acknowledge both homosexual and heterosexual unions … even plural unions.
UPDATE: S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson has issued a statement in response to Gergel’s ruling. In it, he states that his office “has an obligation to defend state law as long as we have a viable path to do so.”
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135 comments
I want to marry my dog ….. Appeal the lawless rogue judges ruling … Force the US Supreme Ct to hear arguments. Centuries of the institution of marriage being destroyed by a small group of sick fucked up scums is insanity.
Not sure what SCOTUS will do when it here this as I really do believe Obama has scared the shit out of them with his propensity for lawlessness and his shredding of the Constitution.
Would not be suprised however if SCOTUS allows gay marriage-disappointing however as it opens up a ‘slippery slope’ of why can’t you marry your own child, have multiple spouses of share married bliss with your German Shepard or your favorite cow on the farm?
I’m not really pro-gay marriage, but a dog or a child could not consent to marriage, and, therefore, there will never be a constitutional right to marry either.
That said, now that we’ve opened the door, I don’t really see a logical reason as to why consenting adults couldn’t have 5 wives or husbands or have a group marriage or for relatives of legal age to marry one another.
Relatives of legal age to marry – hey – works in West Virginia and Kentucky.
A Family Court judge allows a 13 or 14 year-old child to pick which parent they want to live with-why not ruling they could marry that parent.
Consent indeed.
A Family Court judge allows a 13 or 14 year-old child to pick which
parent they want to live with-why not ruling they could marry that
parent.
13/14 years of age is old enough to voice your opinion, not offer consent to something that has legal implications. The court can listen to a child’s opinion and take it into consideration, but that’s a completely different ball park than consenting to marriage.
Just don’t see that happening.To quote,Jean Paul Sartre,”Hell is other people.”
A Federal Court just said our stupid ban was unconstitutional – and it’s Obama’s fault? Sorry Diamond Jim – but two queers can now get married, just in time for Thankgiving. What a wonderful and truly great Thanksgiving Day it shall be. Guess you your vote last Tuesday wasn’t able to stop that – eh?
Guess we won’t know until SCOTUS takes this up. My guess is gay marriage will be legal.
If SCOTUS allows a mother to kill her own child, as Mother Teresa once said ,’what can be next’?
You should do a bit more research into Mother Teresa. Not exactly a saint.
LMAO!!! Tell ya what. I will do that if you do some more research on Radical muslim Obama and find his grades and/or ONE person he went to college with.
muslim Obama
The GOP spent 2008 bashing Jeremiah Wright to hell and back, trying to equate Obama to a bad Christian who listened to hateful religious rhetoric, and now he’s a Muslim? Make up your minds.
And why do we need his grades?
And why do we need his grades?
Surely the same reason he would want Bush’s. I know I know…stop calling you Shirley.
Well, Bush’s were only made available because someone leaked them:
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/07/obamas-sealed-records/
I do agree it is quite dirty and wrong. There’s no reason to require transcripts from presidential candidates, so if they want to keep it private, so be it.
He is a ‘closet’ muslim with a marxist world-view.
We need his grades to figure out which terrorists(profs) at the university trained him and what his next move is to destroy this country.
What’s your favorite flavor of Kool-aid?
54 senate seats
a majority in the house
32 governorships
control of state legislatures
RED!!!!!
Red? Are you a socialist? Or, *gasp*, a COMMUNIST?
Only if it means locking up liberals.
Christopher Hitchens’s essay on her zealotry was simultaneously brilliant and damning.
I think comparing two consenting adults getting married but happen to be same gender is a little bit different than an abortion. Don’t you?
Funny how you Christers always bring up bestiality. Must be because you’re all a bunch of wannabe pigfuckers.
Funny. A REAL monkey has just fucked America for six years and you are talking bout WANNABE pigfuckers.
When you see some of their wives, you KNOW they are already pigfuckers.
Why do you like another man’s shit on your dick? Why do you enjoy licking another man’s asshole?
For someone who professes to be against gays, you sure have a vivid imagination.
I prefer sheep and hairy assholes.
Speaking of pigfuckers and MOTHERfuckers. WAH. Right on cue.
As someone who has no doubt had carnal knowledge of farm animals, I would think you would support being able to marry one.
Hey ‘vic’. Have you set your sights on the next group of LOSERS you will support for political office in 2016?
Never seen a political prognosticator get shut-out on election day but you sure found a way to do it!!!! :-)
I rather support the best candidate than the winning one. What ‘predictions’ did I make, BTW?
LMAO!!!!Just off the top of my head you had Walker and Brownback losing and Kasich in a tight race.
HAW!
Hee haw, hee haw!
Go ahead and marry Rufus. I don’t really care.
A judge who was confirmed by Senator Lindsey Graham.
Lindsey “confirmed” him alright…right before he voted “yes”!
$20 says your grandpa said the same thing about interracial marriage.
Yep. Even though he was porkin’ Bessie Mae on the DL.
Miscegenation is the work of da debil!
Your dog is not a consenting adult human being. Idiot.
Why so angry? Are you burned out on masturbating?
Do you know his dog? Asshole.
this made me laugh
+1
But he has a government pension, medical, dental and vision. We need the family rate.
Meet me at the rest stop west bound I-26 near Greenville. I want to show you something stiff.
I want to marry my dog
“Lassie, do you consent to this marriage?”
Arf! Arf! Rrrr… Arf!
“What’s that Lassie? Marriage is a human construct that animals have no concept of, and therefore animals are entirely unable to consent to such a construct?”
Arf Arf! Rrrruff! Arf!
“What’s that Lassie? Don’t Shoot fell down a well of illogical dumbassery? We better go save him!”
You perverts are all the same.
An UNBORN child can’t give CONSENT to be butchered and murdered and they still are by their mother.
So what a DOG can’t give CONSENT?
Are you arguing that a dog can, in fact, give consent?
I think that makes you the pervert.
By definition YOU are a PERVERT, an immature homosexaual and loser that can take any comment or sentence and make it about sex
I’m not gay, I’m just a decent human being that believes denying two consenting adults that love each other the right to marry makes you an asshole.
And you are said asshole. :)
Your dog should get a job and pay taxes like the rest of us instead of sitting on his lazy ass and doing nothing all day. You just let him mooch off you. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Another damn welfare bitch…
Join the Church of Canis Major. Boy dog or girl dog, doesn’t matter.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
It was only yesterday that the right-wing idiots on this board were gloating about the Mid-term election results. What a difference a day makes.
They voted for a gay Senator – now he can marry. Maybe he’ll marry McCain or Rubio. They’ze can all come out of the closet now.
Maybe he’ll marry McCain or Rubio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgk-lA12FBk
“They voted for a gay Senator – now he can marry. Maybe he’ll marry McCain or Rubio”
If he’s marrying a married man perhaps he should shoot for Romney – his religion allows that you know . . .
We still are. Just picked-up that 8th senate seat today and Obamacare will be repealed with our border soon to be secured.
“our border soon to be secured”
Woo hoo hoo!
Yes. My ‘sources’ tell me that the 11 million illegals will be allowed to stay as the hispanics are a hard working, productive people with conservative values-liberals will be deported as they are the least productive in our society and drain our resources while introducing perversion into our communities and schools. :-)
You might want to consider the list of serial adulterers in the Republican party of South Carolina.
Sandi likes Sanford though. And Haley.
Unlike you, they are both heterosexuals as far as I know.
a face in the crowd was talking about serial adulterers. You can read, right?
I can read-Will called you a socialist, faggot.
socialist
Socialist, Marxist, statist, leftist, etc. It’s cute that you still hang onto that, Sandi.
faggot
How very Christian of you. Did Mother Theresa teach you that word too? :)
Can’t ‘turn the other cheek’ when dealing with the Devil. :-)
Rewriting scripture, too? Neato.
You need to spread your cheeks open wide.It’ll hurt a little at first,but then you’ll love it.I have a concoction of KY and Astroglide mixed up,especially for you,hubby.
I sure hope the F.B.I. monitors this blog for apparent pedophiles like you. You are one sic dude. Save that computer. :-)
Yeah, and then Diamond Jim will try to go down on the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Q: What comes after 69?
A: mouthwash.
You are wrong.You spit the cum in the other guy’s ass,then the buttfucking begins.You must have gone to a gubmint skool.My private Christian school baseball coach taught me that trick to save on lube…waste not,want not
You really need to expand your reading material. The RINOs are running away from Obamacare and planning to hand out amnesty as fast as they can.
lol…just like the Dems kept the senate…
Do you realize the Republicans now hold a 70% majority in the state legislatures after Tuesday? A ‘super’ majority in most states and have picked up over 1400 seats since Obama was elected?
Fool. The Democrat Party won’t exist after 2016.
Like it didn’t exist in 2006? Now I’ll tell you what party won’t exist in 2016 – the Tea Pary.
Never was a ‘Tea Party’. Pelosi tell you that?
Yes, because 2000-2006 saw so many powerful border control bills being pushed through, right?
That’s what you think. The GOP’s corporate paymasters want to continue importing cheap foreign labor, and the GOP ain’t gonna do a damn thing to stop them.
You very neatly summed up this entire issue.
I mean don’t you just know that all these”businessmen,” “free enterprisers ” or whatever nomenclature you want to apply to those who hire all these”illegals” are Democrats?
“Obamacare will be repealed with our border soon to be secured.”
Pure fantasy.
I simply refuse to believe you are so dumb as to believe that.
I told you not to vote for Obama.
This is a great day in SC for freedom and liberty.
Yes … its going to be a great day when people lock and load on freaks.
U mad bro?
Lovely: A gay bigot. Archie Bunker is scratching his head.
“This is a great day in SC for freedom and liberty.”
And just to rub it in and make some more heads explode I say we take down the Confederate Flag and fly the Rainbow Flag!
Amazing that the 4th circuit has gone from one of the most conservative to one of the most liberal thanks to Obama and Harry Reid changing the filibuster rule. Also, Reid wants to approve 24-25 judges in the lame duck. This will be Obama’s last legacy. He has 2 SCOTUS, 53 appeals court judges, and 223 district court judges. That is a lot for lifetime jobs.
Hopefully he gets to approve many more before his third term is up
Here’s to Scalia/Thomas being replaced as well.
That sounds like a threat?
It does??
About par compared to Bush.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_George_W._Bush
your point?
You really are stupid. Just like the Executive Order’s you can’t just look at numbers.
Obama has used EO’s to shred the Constitution in an attempt to ‘transform’ the country into a socialist/3rd world country.
Obama has appointed RADICAL judges that think like he and Holder think-America is evil, they advocate for perverted marriage and infanticide, law enforcement is the problem NOT criminals, legalizing drugs to destroy our grandchildren and redistribution of wealth.
Just like the Executive Order’s you can’t just look at numbers.
Why is it Republicans love shoving big numbers around right up until someone points out that the numbers they are complaining about aren’t remotely extraordinary?
Keep moving the goalposts.
Anyone who supports the US Constitution should applaud this decision. Anyone calling for the SOTUS to hear arguments isn’t paying attention. The Roberts Court has just recently rejected these cases. Wilson and Haley may continue to flail about all they want, but it won’t change anything.
The recent “rejection” was a very narrow opinion. Roberts said the “Act” lived because of the “tax” provisions in the Constitution.
Now, Roberts has a chance to say that the “tax” cannot be collected in the manner contemplated, largely because of the language of the Act itself – creating the Federal exchanges.
Much ado about nothing, but it IS worthwhile to argue this issue (and some 10th Amendment issues) before the same SCOTUS.
Your senility might be showing. Either you are posting to the wrong article or we now have Federal marriage exchanges???
Wrong Article – SORRY ‘BOUT THAT! Too many irons in the fire. My comment should have been on the Obamacare thread.
Roberts has not yet had a chance to rule against Gay marriage yet. Will be interesting to see how the Roman Catholic bloc of SCOTUS votes….
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This just ruins your day, doesn’t it? Does name calling make you feel better?
Q: How do you fit three homosexuals on one barstool?
A: Turn it upside-down!
Some barstools have room for one more.
Q: What’s the difference between a refridgerator and a homo?
A: The fridge doesn’t fart when you pull the meat out!
But they both hum.
Stick it in my mouth and I will hum for you.
No.You get the fudge out w/an enema or whatnot.Now You’re In Heaven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n8J4UyAZXE
Well, the elections are over, so it will be interesting to see how far Wilson wants to push on this. An enormous waste of time and money it always was, and just another way of pandering to “the base.”
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Shut your cock holster.
Any good SCGOPer knows campaign season never ends. Besides, he’s not wasting his own money.
Some more of the infamous “money tree” funding?
“That’s because marriage isn’t a government institution, it’s a religious one – meaning the question should be left to individual congregations.”
So, if the couple is Muslim, does this mean you support the application of Sharia Law?
Thank you for proving my ‘SLIPPERY SLOPE’ argument.
You truly have no comprehension of what you read.
“That’s because marriage isn’t a government institution”
Wrong.
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For the last time: this is about insurance, pension and social security benefits – plain and simple.
And Obama has broken the US Treasury, how in the H#!! are we going to add more lazy liberal Democrat freeloaders trying to get something for nothing, at the expense of the producers? Obama has broken the bank, and our economy.
for the love of god, try to stay on topic
You must be one of those Stupid Americans Grouper was laughing at. If you add more homosexual handout seekers under the guise of marriage, to an already BROKE Obama government, how can we pay for them…Dumb@$$?
Ok. Someone else wants to marry their dog. I want to marry my sister.
thanks for sharing
At least they’re honest, can’t fault them there.
Buz Martin is a FUDGE PACKER
OBAMA IS GOING TO PRISON!!! YES! YES! YES!!!!!!!!
What’s this “waiting on federal courts to rule”? The 4th Circuit IS a federal court!
Just go get married and shut the fuck up.
Q: Why can’t gays drive faster than 68mph?
A: Because at 69 they blow a rod.
Q: What do you call a gay cowboy?
A: A Jolly Rancher!
Q: What does a homo say to another gay going on vacation?
A: Can I help you pack your shit?
One day a guy dies and finds himself in hell. As he is wallowing
in despair, he has his first meeting with the devil…
Satan: “Why so glum?”
Guy: “What do you think? I’m in hell!”
Satan: “Hell’s not so bad. We actually have a lot of fun down here.
You a drinking man?”
Guy: “Sure, I love to drink.”
Satan: “Well, you’re gonna love Mondays then. On Mondays, that’s
all we do, drink. Whiskey, tequila, Guinness, wine coolers, Tab,
and Fresca. We drink ’til we throw up, and then we drink some more!
And you don’t have to worry about getting a hangover, because you’re
dead anyway.”
Guy: “Gee that sounds great!”
Satan: “You a smoker?”
Guy: “You better believe it!”
Satan: “All right! You’re gonna love Tuesdays. We get the finest
cigars from all over the world, and smoke our lungs out. If you get
cancer – no biggie, you’re already dead, remember?”
Guy: “Wow…that’s awesome!”
Satan: “I bet you like to gamble.”
Guy: “Why, yes, as a matter of fact I do.”
Satan: “Good, ’cause Wednesdays you can gamble all you want.
Craps,blackjack, roulette, poker, slots, whatever. If you go bankrupt,
it doesn’t
matter, you’re dead anyhow.”
Guy: “Cool!”
Satan: “What about Drugs?”
Guy: “Are you kidding? Love drugs! You don’t mean…?”
Satan: “That’s right! Thursday is drug day. Help yourself to a
great bigbowl of crack or smack. Smoke a doobie the size of a
submarine.You can do all the drugs you want. You’re dead so who cares.”
Guy: “Wow! I never realized Hell was such a cool place!”
Satan: “You gay?”
Guy: “No…”
Satan: “Ooooh, Fridays are gonna be tough…”
Q: What did one gay sperm say to another?
A: “How do we find an egg in all of this shit?”
It’s under appeal, immediately by AG Wilson…so I don’t think anything will change. The Constitutional ban is still in effect, right?
Yay! Now Will can marry Spurrier.
It is Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve….