On Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 9:05:11 AM UTC-4, Muggles wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 05:29:00 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:
When you want the government to make law on gay
marriage on the basis of what various religions say
or don't say about it, it's a violation of the first
amendment. It's a step in the direction of a
theocracy, like those crazy nut countries that have all
kinds of screwy laws, with very bad consequences,
based on religion.

I'm against theocracy. Changing the definition of marriage has opened
the door now for all kinds of screwy laws from this point on. There
will be nothing to stop what crazies and nut jobs want to make legal
in the near future.

Do you know who will have the authority to say no to other marriage
combinations, now?

--
Maggie

The federal courts and ultimately the SC will have the authority,
when and if such a case is brought. Alternatively, govts have the
choice of getting out of the marriage business altogether. If they
don't require you to get a marriage license, don't have tax benefits,
survivor benefits, etc as part of law, then govt won't have to be
involved at all in what constitutes marriage.

The "door is now opened" logic has been applied in the past to
making slaves citizens, Jim Crow laws, inter-racial marriages,
ie similar changes that people were against at the time.