{"id":29772,"date":"2018-05-15T20:41:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29772"},"modified":"2018-05-15T20:41:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:41:15","slug":"feds-have-no-say-in-marriage-um-yes-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29772","title":{"rendered":"Feds have no say in marriage? Um, yes, they do!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The issue of marriage came up as a side issue in an editorial published by a Texas newspaper. I feel the need to set the record straight about what rights the federal government has in determining marriage.<\/p>\n

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The Amarillo Globe-News said this, among other things, in discussing states’ rights on sports betting and a recent Supreme Court ruling on that subject: The federal government has no right to define marriage in any way, shape or form. Yet the U.S. Supreme Court sees fit to define marriage for the entire nation. Again – no state\u2019s rights here.<\/em><\/p>\n

The AGN is seeking to ascertain where states’ rights are relevant and where federal authority supersedes them.<\/p>\n

Read the editorial here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Back to the point: The Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that the U.S. Constitution — the document that governs the entire nation — has a clause that requires all citizens to have “equal protection under the law.” That was the basis of its ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 our states.<\/p>\n

This isn’t a deeply held secret ruling concocted in some star chamber by a majority of the Supreme Court justices. The law is clear. Marriage becomes a federal issue if someone chooses to seek a legal remedy that they believe violates one of the key provisions of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

Equal protection<\/em> is such a key provision. Thus, when a segment of our population is denied the right to marry whoever they love, then the federal judiciary has an obligation to set the record straight.<\/p>\n

States have no right, therefore, under the federal Constitution, to deny any American their guarantee of equal protection under the law.<\/p>\n

Are we clear now? Good!<\/p>\n\n

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The issue of marriage came up as a side issue in an editorial published by a Texas newspaper. I feel the need to set the record straight about what rights the federal government has in determining marriage. The Amarillo Globe-News said this, among other things, in discussing states’ rights on sports betting and a recent … Continue reading Feds have no say in marriage? Um, yes, they do!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[179,1609,4088,5043],"class_list":["post-29772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-agn-media","tag-equal-protection","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29774,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29772\/revisions\/29774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}