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Separation of Church and State
Why Marriage Is Unconstitutional
Why Every State’s Marriage Laws Should Be Thrown-out
Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and rightly so from a purely Constitutional perspective (don’t stop reading, you need to know this), Evangelicals in all 50 states have been salivating over the notion that Obergerfell v. Hodges, the ruling that legalized Gay Marriage in all 50 states, will be overturned as well on the same basis that Roe was.
It’s a distinct possibility. But it’s also a long-shot.
While Roe was decided on a very narrow set of circumstances, and now we’re learning that Roe actually lied to the high court as well, something that should have invalidated the ruling from the outset 40 years ago, Obergerfell is NOT Roe.
Both issues have similar repercussions, but both are very different issues.
While Liberal Gay Rights advocates see Obergerfell as immutable, akin to what the Courts decided for black people during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s—which I whole-heartedly agree with by the way—in my mind, as a Libertarian, Obergerfell didn’t go far enough!
