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   From: fmhlaw@comcast.net   
      
   On 9/24/2014 3:59 PM, WangoTango wrote:   
   > In article , mygarbagecan@verizon.net   
   > says...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "David J. Hughes"  wrote in message news:HdzUv.240259$JH1.29846@fx08.iad...   
   >>   
   >> On 9/23/2014 12:57 PM, BeamMeUpScotty wrote:   
   >>> On 9/23/2014 11:27 AM, Lee wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> La. state judge: Gay marriage ban unconstitutional   
   >>>> Sept 22 2014   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriage is   
   >>>> unconstitutional, in part because it   
   >>>> violates equal protection rights, a state   
   >>>> judge ruled Monday.   
   >>>   
   >>> Protection of what right?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> # Fourteenth Amendment, section one   
   >> # "1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to   
   >> # the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the   
   >> # State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which   
   >> # shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United   
   >> # States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or   
   >> # property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its   
   >> # jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."   
   >>   
   >> # Contract laws, of which marriage laws are a subset, should not   
   >> # discriminate on anything other than the ability to consent or enter into   
   >> # a valid contract.   
   >>   
   >> Nice cite.  Too bad it isn't relevant except in the strange minds of   
   >> proggies.   
   >>   
   >> Assume that man A has the right to marry a woman, and man B has the right to   
   >> marry a woman.   
   >>   
   >> In what weird world of logic does that mean that man A has a right to marry   
   >> man B?   
   >   
   > Because there is nothing stopping them from any other type of   
   > contractual agreement, duh.   
   >   
   Sure there is.  Many types of contracts are void on public policy grounds.   
      
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