Traditional Family Is A Thing Of The Past, Supreme Court Lack Of Decision Guarantees It. What's Next You Being Able To Marry Your Dog? Man/Boy Marriages? Does Everything Go Now?

This Supreme Court Decision Will Wreak Havoc on Traditional Family Values Across the U.S.

•  CONSTITUTION, FEATURED, IDEALS, NEWS
•  SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SUPREME COURT

The Supreme Court has just refused to hear cases related to the issue of same-sex marriage. Cases from Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin were rejected. As a result, those states must now begin issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. Applications for marriage licenses began to pour in immediately after the rejection. CNN reports Virginia began issuing the marriage licenses at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.

The CNN report continues:

Experts say its refusal to hear the cases from those five states also means that six more states — West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming — could soon have to lift their bans on same-sex marriage, because they are covered by the same circuit appeals courts that initially struck down the prohibitions.

Once that happens, the number of states permitting same-sex marriage would jump from 19 to 30. At issue is whether gay and lesbian couples in all 50 states have the same equal protection or due process right to marry that opposite-sex couples have.

In Utah, just hours after word from the high court came down, Gov. Gary Herbert said at a press conference that he felt “surprised” and “disappointed” that there was no “finality” on the issue of same-sex marriage. The state would comply with Monday’s order, he said, and same-sex marriages would move forward.

The court’s inaction presages a future time in which they may declare a new standard, based on evolving laws in individual states. A similar logic was used in the case of Lawrence v. Texas (2003), in which SCOTUS waited seventeen years to overrule Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), a challenge to the state’s sodomy law.

In Lawrence, the court said Bowers was no longer valid because of “an emerging awareness that liberty gives substantial protection to adult persons in deciding how to conduct their private lives in matters pertaining to sex.” Justice Scalia opposed the decision on the grounds the state still regulates “prostitution, adult incest, adultery, obscenity, and child pornography.” He continued, “Constitutional entitlements do not spring into existence because some States choose to lessen or eliminate criminal sanctions on certain behavior.”