Gay Marriage

[delldude]

 

A Tennessee judge, not bowing to pressure, has ruled that same-sex marriage remains unconstitutional in the state, breaking a nearly 14-month streak of other states' rulings to the contrary.
Judge Russell E. Simmons, Jr. heard the case between two homosexual men married four years ago in Iowa and now seeking a divorce in their home state of Tennessee. Because state law considers their marriage "prohibited" and "unenforceable" in the state, a divorce could not be recognized. SCOTUSblog reports that while this ruling was in regards to this particular case of divorce, the ruling was in fact "sweeping."
This makes Tennessee the first state in the last 14 months to uphold their state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
 

 

[SparrowHawk]

Why would someones choice of romantic partner be any of the Government's business?
 
Q: Why did the Libertarian cross the road?
 
A: None of your business, Am I being detained?

 

[Dog Wonder]

Why would someones choice of romantic partner be any of the Government's business?
 
Q: Why did the Libertarian cross the road?
 
A: None of your business, Am I being detained?

Did you take a picture of a policeman?

 

[SparrowHawk]

Did you take a picture of a policeman?

None of your business! Am I being detained?

 

[jimntx]

Interesting that you should believe the "he was nearly killed by Brown" story when producing the police officer and/or pictures of his wounds would stop the whole situation dead in its tracks.  The fact that you are willing to swallow the FauxNews.com version of the story whole without even chewing (aka thinking)  couldn't be because Brown is black and Wilson is white, now could it?  Wow, I mean Wow.
 
wow-wow-wow.  Did I say wow enough for you?  WOW
 
P.S.  In case my FAUXNEWS remark is too subtle for you...FAUX is the French word for FALSE.




 

 

[delldude]

Wow, man....
 
The vid of Brown in the store pushing the little white guy around says a lot of how it went down with the police officer. And who's to say Brown didn't have white boy issues up front, especially a white cop? I have a pretty good idea Brown don't like whites......you see the pics of him shooting all those gangsta hand signs?
 
Too many people want all the evidence now. It doesn't work that way. Did Fergie PD handle this right? Probably not, but I don't think they ever had an issue go off like this before.
 
Besides....everyone is ignoring the blaring fact that the little guy with Brown started all this by claiming Brown had his hands up, back to the cop and was executed.....this whole riot squarely rests on his shoulders and his alone.

 

[700UW]

And what does Michael Brown have to do with Gay Marriage?

 

[delldude]

And what does Michael Brown have to do with Gay Marriage?

 
You haven't heard?

 

[Dog Wonder]

You haven't heard?

It all started when the Libertarian crossed the road.

 

[CactusPilot1]

I would never be in the same room with his anti-union hatred.
 
He follows me around.

What does anti-union hatred have to do with this thread? FOLLOW THAT?

 

[CactusPilot1]

Interesting that you should believe the "he was nearly killed by Brown" story when producing the police officer and/or pictures of his wounds would stop the whole situation dead in its tracks.  The fact that you are willing to swallow the FauxNews.com version of the story whole without even chewing (aka thinking)  couldn't be because Brown is black and Wilson is white, now could it?  Wow, I mean Wow.
 
wow-wow-wow.  Did I say wow enough for you?  WOW
 
P.S.  In case my FAUXNEWS remark is too subtle for you...FAUX is the French word for FALSE.

Wow..jimindenial, I started a thread for CNN'ers like yourself..jiminLaLaland.

 

[PHXConx]

Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries including a bone fracture near one eye and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun, a source close to the department's top brass told FoxNews.com.
 
oh well since foxnews says it it must be true... let me ask you as their city was burning before they called the national guard before they pointed automatic weapons on unarmed protesters why didnt they mention this "beat up"  and why hasnt any witnesses corroborated that story, not a single witness... 
 
something for you to ponder on
 
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/08/conflicting_reports_cnn_source_claims_ferguson_cop_did_not_have_fractured.html

The Assistant (Police) Chief took him to the hospital, his face all swollen on one side, said the insider. He was beaten very severely.
 
he did did he...??? why isnt the assistant police chief on tv talking about it? perhaps it didnt happen?  

Are you saying that a cop has no right to defend himself? Wow, some people.
no of course not, but the evidence does not play out that he had to defend himself do you think its ok to shoot a kid then make up a story saying that he was beat nearly unconscious?
 
 
WOW-WOW-WOW. Did I sat wow enough for you? WOW

the fun thing about people like you and the majority of fox news viewers is that you belive that the police is always right... even though police routinely over react, over kill and target citizens and they think they have the right to, because people like you give them a pass... 
 
i was like you once... but eventually even you will have to look at the overwhelming amount of video evidence of this being rampant across our country and say what the F*ck!!!??  
 
eventually... well probably not 
 
and you didn't say wow enough, its people like you that SAY they belive in the constitution and believe in rights it grants, then are the first one to deny people their rights based on a picture they took as a kid... brilliant simply brilliant... 
 
oh and wow... smh

 

[PHXConx]

 
 
Too many people want all the evidence now. It doesn't work that way. Did Fergie PD handle this right? Probably not, but I don't think they ever had an issue go off like this before.
 
 

never say never....
 
 
 
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/15/the-day-ferguson-cops-were-caught-in-a-bloody-lie.html
 
The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie
The officers got the wrong man, but charged him anyway—with getting his blood on their uniforms. How the Ferguson PD ran the town where Michael Brown was gunned down.
Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms while four of them allegedly beat him.
“On and/or about the 20th day of Sept. 20, 2009 at or near 222 S. Florissant within the corporate limits of Ferguson, Missouri, the above named defendant did then and there unlawfully commit the offense of ‘property damage’ to wit did transfer blood to the uniform,” reads the charge sheet.
The address is the headquarters of the Ferguson Police Department, where a 52-year-old welder named Henry Davis was taken in the predawn hours on that date. He had been arrested for an outstanding warrant that proved to actually be for another man of the same surname, but a different middle name and Social Security number.
“I said, ‘I told you guys it wasn’t me,’” Davis later testified.
He recalled the booking officer saying, “We have a problem.”
The booking officer had no other reason to hold Davis, who ended up in Ferguson only because he missed the exit for St. Charles and then pulled off the highway because the rain was so heavy he could not see to drive. The cop who had pulled up behind him must have run his license plate and assumed he was that other Henry Davis. Davis said the cop approached his vehicle, grabbed his cellphone from his hand, cuffed him and placed him in the back seat of the patrol car, without a word of explanation.
But the booking officer was not ready just to let Davis go, and proceeded to escort him to a one-man cell that already had a man in it asleep on the lone bunk. Davis says that he asked the officer if he could at least have one of the sleeping mats that were stacked nearby.
”He said I wasn’t getting one,” Davis said.
Davis balked at being a second man in a one-man cell.
“Because it’s 3 in the morning,” he later testified. “Who going to sleep on a cement floor?”
The booking officer summoned a number of fellow cops. One opened the cell door while another suddenly charged, propelling Davis inside and slamming him against the back wall.
“I told the police officers there that I didn’t do nothing, ‘Why is you guys doing this to me?’” Davis testified. “They said, ‘OK, just lay on the ground and put your hands behind your back.’”
Davis said he complied and that a female officer straddled and then handcuffed him. Two other officers crowded into the cell.
“They started hitting me,” he testified. “I was getting hit and I just covered up.”
The other two stepped out and the female officer allegedly lifted Davis’ head as the cop who had initially pushed him into the cell reappeared.
“He ran in and kicked me in the head,” Davis recalled. “I almost passed out at that point… Paramedics came… They said it was too much blood, I had to go to the hospital.”
A patrol car took the bleeding Davis to a nearby emergency room. He refused treatment, demanding somebody first take his picture. 
“I wanted a witness and proof of what they done to me,” Davis said.
He was driven back to the jail, where he was held for several days before he posted $1,500 bond on four counts of “property damage.” Police Officer John Beaird had signed complaints swearing on pain of perjury that Davis had bled on his uniform and those of three fellow officers.
The remarkable turned inexplicable when Beaird was deposed in a civil case that Davis subsequently brought seeking redress and recompense. 
“After Mr. Davis was detained, did you have any blood on you?” asked Davis’ lawyer, James Schottel.  
“No, sir,” Beaird replied.
Schottel showed Beaird a copy of the “property damage” complaint.
“Is that your signature as complainant?” the lawyer asked.
“It is, sir,” the cop said.
“And what do you allege that Mr. Davis did unlawfully in this one?” the lawyer asked.
“Transferred blood to my uniform while Davis was resisting,” the cop said.
“And didn’t I ask you earlier in this deposition if Mr. Davis got blood on your uniform?”
“You did, sir.”
“And didn’t you respond no?”
“Correct. I did.”
Beaird seemed to be either admitting perjury or committing it. The depositions of other officers suggested that the “property damage” charges were not just bizarre, but trumped up.
“There was no blood on my uniform,” said Police Officer Christopher Pillarick.
And then there was Officer Michael White, the one accused of kicking Davis in the head, an allegation he denies, as his fellow officers deny striking Davis. White had reported suffering a bloody nose in the mayhem.
“Did you see Mr. Davis bleeding at all?”  the lawyer, Schottel, asked.
“I did not,” White replied.

 

[Ms Tree]

and you didn't say wow enough, its people like you that SAY they belive in the constitution and believe in rights it grants, then are the first one to deny people their rights based on a picture they took as a kid... brilliant simply brilliant... 
 

Getting back to the original topic, the COTUS does not grant rights.  The writers of the COTUS believes that certain rights were inalienable.  They wrote the COTUS to limit the scope and power of government, not to grant rights to man.  Hence the rulings from the courts that the bans on marriage violate the 14th.

 

[PHXConx]

Getting back to the original topic, the COTUS does not grant rights.  The writers of the COTUS believes that certain rights were inalienable.  They wrote the COTUS to limit the scope and power of government, not to grant rights to man.  Hence the rulings from the courts that the bans on marriage violate the 14th.

so the rights contained in the constitution arent granted to people?  are you batty?