"Gay" "Marriage" & Constitutional "Chaos"

by JASmius



Note the statist, top-down, "one-size-fits-all-and-we'll-tell-you-what-size-you're-getting" mentality that skews this Assholiated Press story:

Gay and lesbian couples could face legal chaos if the Supreme Court rules against same-sex marriage in the next few weeks.

Same-sex weddings could come to a halt in many states, depending on a confusing mix of lower-court decisions and the sometimes-contradictory views of state and local officials.

Among the 36 states in which same-sex couples can now marry are twenty in which federal judges invoked the Constitution to strike down marriage bans.

Those rulings would be in conflict with the nation's highest court if the justices uphold the power of states to limit marriage to heterosexual couples. A decision is expected by late June in cases from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.

Good folks at the AP, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: "Chaos" is the way these things are supposed to work.  You may also know it by the term "federalism".  The Tenth Amendment.  Ring any bells?  Any issue, any matter, that the Constitution didn't enumerate the power to the federal government to handle, either originally or subsequently by Amendment, is, by definition, the purview of the States.  Which means the Supreme Court, as an arm of that same federal government, has no constitutional legal say in any marriage case, and they, and every lower federal court, should never have heard a single one - ever.

Indeed, the "chaos" already exists now, with traditional marriage being actively destroyed and replaced with the veneration of perversion that homos do an even worse job of honoring than normal people do real marriage.  "Chaos" is the civilly disobedient steamroller that has run roughshod over State marriage laws, also via lawless federal courts, in illegally usurping State authority to decide marriage for themselves and shoving sodomarriage down the collective throats of one State after another that overwhelmingly didn't want it and are now being resigned to it as a result, which explains the polling turn on this issue.  And "chaos" after a "correct" SCOTUS decision will be the result of homosexuals presumptuously jumping the gun, assuming the ruling they are demanding and expecting and maybe, just maybe, not getting it.

There's no much chance of that, as I read my tea leaves.  You know how "philosophical" Justice Kennedy gets on the subject of "personal autonomy" and "anal intrudery".

But even if he does eat his Wheaties later this month, it's not like the Lavender Lobby has any problem practicing nullification:

Top officials in some states, including California, seem determined to allow gay and lesbian couples to continue to marry no matter how the court decision comes out. But some county clerks, who actually issue marriage licenses, might not go along, experts said.

They will, folks.  The mob will leave them no other choice.