Yeah she did.
…and she did it at a very expedient and convenient point in her political career. After Joe Biden forced Barack Obama to publicly support same sex marriage. What would have taken guts would have been stopping her husband from signing DOMA, but that was 13 years ago.
It makes me yawn each time I see someone praising Clinton for this….partisans suck, y’all.
I am absolutely against a ban on same-sex marriages because [bans] are simply unconstitutional. And it is one thing to read the polls, which we have discussed which show again that a majority of Americans are in favor of same sex marriage, but it is more important to read the Constitution. And the Constitution of the United States dictates, I believe, under every court precedent that we have discussed in terms of describing marriage as a fundamental right that the same-sex couples that are before the United states supreme court — Mrs. Windsor, Miss Perry — be allowed to have equal protection under the laws as any Americans when it comes to their ability to join themselves with their loving partners in marriage and raise their children. And 61% of Californians are in favor of same-sex marriage.
Marriage, not to be confused with Holy Matrimony, is a legal contract requiring a license issued by the state. As such, it is inherently unconstitutional to deny same-sex couples the right to enter into such a contract that is afforded every other consenting couple of legal age.
City Attorney Geno Zamora says in a three-page opinion that New Mexico’s statutory definition of marriage is gender-neutral and doesn’t define marriage as between a man and a woman. The law instead emphasizes the consent of the two people who want to wed, saying that marriage is “contemplated by the law as a civil contract, for which the consent of the contracting parties, capable in law of contracting, is essential,” Zamora noted.
Zamora also notes that New Mexico already recognizes marriages from other states, “without regard to the sex of the parties,” and that the state Constitution requires equal treatment regardless of gender. And while New Mexico’s statutory marriage application form is “described in terms of male and female applicants,” the form is trumped by the Constitution’s Equal Rights Amendment and the specific language of the marriage statute, “which does not require that the applicants be of the opposite sex,” Zamora’s opinion says.
The opinion says same-sex couples who have a marriage application denied should petition in district court for a writ directing a county clerk to issue a license “because the gender of the applicants is not a statutory ground for denial.
If you’re a Citizen, You’ll leave Out Your Religious Beliefs Out of Your Opposition to Same Sex Marriage
It’s much more expedient to have this discussion reminding people that the United States is a secular republic because the Constitution is much clearer about the the matter than The Bible.
Most court cases challenging prohibitions against same sex marriage are based on those prohibitions being violations of the 14th Amendment. I take another tact and focus on the etiology of that opposition being a violation The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. There is very little coherence, if any, in an argument in opposition to same sex marriage that isn’t based on a theology, faulty or otherwise.
Bigots who oppose same sex marriage forget that that outside of their church, beyond the intended sight of God, that marriage is a contract between two consenting adults. To insist and codify that people Here be obliged to marry as part of a religious act is theocracy - in opposition and defiance of the rules written down in the Constitution.
Dunce extraordinaire Kirk Cameron has teamed up with the National Organization of Marriage (NOM) in a new video to promote the sanctity of marriage, or to remind godless heathens like myself that I will burn in hell for eternity unless I accept that same-sex marriage will ruin all the things. In Cameron’s interview with the NOM’s Marriage Anti-Defamation (LOL) Alliance, he says we all must “follow the instruction manual of the designer of marriage”… that being God.
Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams quips:
Wow, I hope God mentioned designing the international plague of child marriages, which that godless U.N. has had the temerity to condemn. I hope God had a talk with him about abduction marriage. Did he say anything about the mail-order bride industry? Because, seriously, when you and God were talking about marriage, Kirk, God may have neglected to mention a few bugs in the system.
Kirk Cameron, Damian Goddard and The Rest of The NOM Cabal: making new Atheists and Agnostics every day.
MissionGathering Christian Church (via North Carolina Church Apologizes Amendment 1 Vote)
“I was raised by a gay couple and I’m doing pretty well. I scored in the 99th percentile on the ACT. I’m actually an Eagle Scout, I own and operate my own small business. If I was your son Mr. Chairman, I believe I’d make you very proud.” —Zach Wahls on Gay Marriage”
I know this has already been floating around the internet all day, but I love it so much.
There will be a blog named fuckyeahzackwahls someday.
What defines us is our humanity, and what runs against humanity is intolerance.
Argentinian Sen. Norma Morandini on Argentina legalizing same sex marriage.
There was another great quote from Eduardo Morales of San Luis province
They want to convert this city into the gay capital of the world
I could imagine Gavin Newsom replying to Sr. Morales with “Bring it”
