Sentences with phrase «marriage as a constitutional»

When it came, though, to the force of dissents read aloud, nothing compares with the dissent he delivered in 2013, in the Windsor case, when the Court teed up the decision it would render two years later in proclaiming same - sex marriage as a constitutional right:

Is it moving quickly enough that the Supreme Court, where the issue may be headed via a California test case, will decide the country is ready to accept gay marriage as a constitutional right?

Publications and Presented Materials «Bitcoin Basics for the Family Law Practitioner,» The Florida Bar Family Law Section Commentator, Fall 2016 «The United States Supreme Court Recognizes Same - Sex Marriage as a Constitutional Right,» Brinkley Morgan Legal Talk Blog, July 1, 2015 Speaker, «Family Law Appeals,» Palm Beach County Bar Association's The Basics of Family Law You Thought You Already Knew CLE Seminar, May 8, 2015 «Collaborative Divorce: A New Approach to Dissolving Marriages in Florida,» Brinkley Morgan Legal Talk Blog, Feb. 27, 2015

I appreciate the arguments that have been made for same - sex marriage as a constitutional right, but these arguments work well — work better — in the political arena.

Not exact matches

«Today's opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be made between heterosexual and homosexual unions, insofar as a formal recognition in marriage is concerned,» wrote Scalia.

A judge ruled that California's voter - approved ban on same - sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, violated the constitutional rights of same - sex couples.

Civil unions (providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name) are better, because a «separate but equal» institution is always constitutional.

That one action by Senator Kennedy paved the way for a judicial appointment that almost surely was the key to preserving a constitutional right to abortion on demand and to the overturning of U.S. laws protecting marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

If same - sex marriage is accepted as a constitutional right, the rights of orthodox religious groups regarding their approach to and public judgment of the moral quality of same - sex couples» relationships may lose out, and in numerous ways.

Worley's initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama's endorsement of same - sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions.

Second, issues like abortion, euthanasia, and gay marriage should not be treated as isolated from the broader constitutional crisis.

If that were true, there would have been (as you note) no need to reach the question of the legitimacy of their marriage, and they would not have made it this far in the court system (i. e., 4 postponements from the constitutional court).

In addition to calling for an inclusion of marriage equality in the Democratic Party platform, the language also backs overturning the Defense of Marriage Act and passing DOMA repeal legislation known as the Respect for Marriage Act in addition to opposing state constitutional amendments aimed at blocking gay couples from marriagemarriage equality in the Democratic Party platform, the language also backs overturning the Defense of Marriage Act and passing DOMA repeal legislation known as the Respect for Marriage Act in addition to opposing state constitutional amendments aimed at blocking gay couples from marriageMarriage Act and passing DOMA repeal legislation known as the Respect for Marriage Act in addition to opposing state constitutional amendments aimed at blocking gay couples from marriageMarriage Act in addition to opposing state constitutional amendments aimed at blocking gay couples from marriagemarriage rights.

In 2004, 59 % of voters approved a state constitutional amendment that defined marriage as «the union of one man and one woman.»

President François Hollande signed the law on May 18 for marriage equality and adoption for same - sex couples after the Constitutional Council approved it as in line with the French constitution.

Ken Mehlman, the Republican strategist who engineered George W. Bush's re-election in part by campaigning on a constitutional ban on gay marriage — and then came out as a gay man himself — helped marshal support among recalcitrant factions in Albany.

Normally, that by itself, should shield any one of the states which enacted Traditional Marriage protections against interlopers entering the state and demanding that their fake Sodomite «marriage» be recognized as valid, but in this day and age of a runaway judiciary, it is best that we somehow pass a Constitutional Amendment defining Traditional Marriage and / or slapping the hands of rogue jurists away from the issue altMarriage protections against interlopers entering the state and demanding that their fake Sodomite «marriage» be recognized as valid, but in this day and age of a runaway judiciary, it is best that we somehow pass a Constitutional Amendment defining Traditional Marriage and / or slapping the hands of rogue jurists away from the issue altmarriage» be recognized as valid, but in this day and age of a runaway judiciary, it is best that we somehow pass a Constitutional Amendment defining Traditional Marriage and / or slapping the hands of rogue jurists away from the issue altMarriage and / or slapping the hands of rogue jurists away from the issue altogether.

Hanna, a third - term congressman from Oneida County, was joined by fellow New York Rep. Chris Gibson, R - Kinderhook, and Rep. Ileana Ros - Lehtinen, R - Fla., as the only House Republicans to support a constitutional right to gay marriage.

(I support same - sex marriages and civil unions as a policy matter..., but I don't think that state courts should mandate them as a constitutional matter.)

Elliott, who is known for his work on landmark constitutional cases such as same - sex marriage, has also been counsel on large class actions.

A Roanoke County Circuit Court denies a petition for adoption of two daughters by a same - sex couple who was married in Connecticut, as Virginia constitutional and statutory law does not allow the court to recognize their marriage.

Related Document: Private Law as Constitutional Context for Same - sex Marriage -LSB-.

«Private Law as Constitutional Context for Same - Sex Marriage» (2007) 2 Journal of Comparative Law 172 - 91.

al., recognizing marriage as a fundamental constitutional right for same sex -LSB-...]

Kern has indicated on his Center for Arizona Policy questionnaire that he is opposed to comprehensive sex education and in favor of retaining Arizona's constitutional definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.