Same-Sex Marriage Ruling: Amendment ruled unconstitutional

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Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Amendment ruled unconstitutional


A federal judge has declared Nebraska's one-of-a-kind ban on same-sex marriages unconstitutional.

Nebraska voters approved a constitutional amendment, known as Initiative 416, in 2000 with 70 percent of the vote. It prevents homosexuals who work for the state or the University of Nebraska system from sharing health insurance and other benefits with their partners.

In a 42-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Joseph Joseph Bataillon said Thursday that the ban "imposes significant burdens on both the expressive and intimate associational rights" of gays and lesbians "and creates a significant barrier to the plaintiffs' right to petition or to participate in the political process."

"Although not central to disposition of this case, the court finds" the ban "burdens rights of intimate association," he said.



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http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1573952.html

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1. Its not only Unconstitutional

its Anti-American and that's why conservatives love it.

I'll ask for the thousandth time:

WHERE IN THE CONSITUTION DOES IT STATE HOMOSEXUALS CANNOT MARRY ONE ANOTHER?

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2. It's a LEGAL CONTRACT, folks, so unless the government and

its courts get out of the marriage business completely, the equal protection clause should open civil marriage to all.

Religious marriage is different, altogether, and the more priggish churches are allowed to refuse the ceremonial marriage.