GOP Governors Vow To Resist High Court Decision On Marriage Equality

[Webster]

note: for background, please refer to the news item in this thread

...what, are they going to pull a George Wallace and stand in the marriage equality door now?

Now that the Supreme Court has refused to consider appeals of gay marriage victories from five states, effectively giving gay couples the right to marry in those states, and six others, several Republican governors, but not all, are putting up roadblocks.

As background, these are the states in which the Supreme Court refused to hear appeals of cases where gays won: Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Utah.

And, because these were appellate court decisions, their rulings apply in all the states within their jurisdiction. That means these additional states will also now have to recognize gay nuptials: North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming.

Marriages have begun in Utah.
Marriages have begun in Oklahoma.
Marriages have begun in Virginia.
Marriages can begin immediately in Indiana.
West Virginia is still pending.

North Carolina is stalling. (The governor is a Republican.)
(The) Republican governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, vows to ignore Supreme Court on a civil rights decision. Just like old times.
Wyoming’s Republican governor is going to ignore the Supreme Court too.
Kansas is ignoring the Supreme Court too — the governor is GOP former congressional neanderthal Sam Brownback: “You can’t do that in the state of Kansas,” said Nancy Escalante, supervisor for marriage licenses at the court. “Our application says ‘man and woman.’ The Legislature has not changed it.”

In contrast, here’s how a Democratic governor handled today’s move by the Supreme Court, even though none of the decisions in question even applied to Missouri:

Attorney General Chris Koster today released the following statement: “The circuit court’s judgment in Barrier v. Vasterling held that Missouri must recognize marriages lawfully entered into in other states. We will not appeal that judgment. Our national government is founded upon principles of federalism – a system that empowers Missouri to set policy for itself, but also obligates us to honor contracts entered into in other states.

A consequence of this morning’s ruling by the United States Supreme Court is that gay marriage will soon be legal in as many as 30 states. At a time when Missouri is competing to attract the nation’s premier businesses and most talented employees, we should not demand that certain individuals surrender their marriage licenses in order to live and work among us.

Missouri’s future will be one of inclusion, not exclusion.”

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

 

[Webster]

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy...go read the Full Faith & Credit Clause of the Constitution and then repeat what you just said there, Liberty.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy...go read the Full Faith & Credit Clause of the Constitution and then repeat what you just said there, Liberty.

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

 

[Webster]

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy...go read the Full Faith & Credit Clause of the Constitution and then repeat what you just said there, Liberty.

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

Liberty, put down the Galt's Gulch kool-aid and come back to reality, okay?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy...go read the Full Faith & Credit Clause of the Constitution and then repeat what you just said there, Liberty.

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

Liberty, put down the Galt's Gulch kool-aid and come back to reality, okay?

You would just love it for all of us to just comply and fold and give up on any idea of individualism and freedom. Religious people have there bibles to guide them. I have what guides me. And haters of freedom have the communist manifesto. You stick with your manifesto and I will stick with what I believe.

 

[Webster]

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy...go read the Full Faith & Credit Clause of the Constitution and then repeat what you just said there, Liberty.

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

Liberty, put down the Galt's Gulch kool-aid and come back to reality, okay?

You would just love it for all of us to just comply and fold and give up on any idea of individualism and freedom. Religious people have there bibles to guide them. I have what guides me. And haters of freedom have the communist manifesto. You stick with your manifesto and I will stick with what I believe.

You know, I've been called everything imaginavble...but communist, there's a new one. *adds deadpan* So equality before the law is a communist thing, Liberty? You do realize you're drifting awful close to Godwin's Law levels of ridiculousness in your arguments, right?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy...go read the Full Faith & Credit Clause of the Constitution and then repeat what you just said there, Liberty.

You mean freebies equality from the government. Anyone anytime can get married.

Liberty, put down the Galt's Gulch kool-aid and come back to reality, okay?

You would just love it for all of us to just comply and fold and give up on any idea of individualism and freedom. Religious people have there bibles to guide them. I have what guides me. And haters of freedom have the communist manifesto. You stick with your manifesto and I will stick with what I believe.

You know, I've been called everything imaginavble...but communist, there's a new one. *adds deadpan* So equality before the law is a communist thing, Liberty? You do realize you're drifting awful close to Godwin's Law levels of ridiculousness in your arguments, right?

You should read more carefully I never said Communist when referring to you specifically.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Liberty, you're making perfect sense to me. Just wanted to let you know....

Thanks!