{"id":1008,"date":"2010-07-19T22:59:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2010-07-19T22:59:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:59:34","slug":"a-strange-interpretation-of-states-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/2010\/07\/19\/a-strange-interpretation-of-states-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"A Strange Interpretation of &#8220;State&#8217;s Rights&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog, I mentioned that a judge had ruled heterosexual marriage as unconstitutional. One of my readers responded with the following question:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>I hadn&#8217;t heard about the marriage &#8220;ruling&#8221;.\u00a0 Who, when, where, etc?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RESPONSE:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Judge Joseph Tauro in Boston ruling in favor of gay couples&#8217; rights in a challenge\u00a0 to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act,\u00a0 which claims that one state need not recognize the marriage of another state. Tauro argues that the law interferes with the right of states to define marriage. Of course the law does the opposite: It says that one state<strong><em> need not<\/em><\/strong> recognize the marriage of another state. I guess one has to go to law school to understand how judges find this stuff between the lines.<\/p>\n<p>Also, let us not forget that California recently defined marriage and is now being taken to federal court to have this new law (a part of their own constitution) over ruled. So much for interfering with state rights.<\/p>\n<p>You see,\u00a0 here\u2019s how the wisdom works: States have a right to define marriage anyway they want, so long as they define it in a manner consistent with the militant Gay Agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog, I mentioned that a judge had ruled heterosexual marriage as unconstitutional. One of my readers responded with the following question: &#8220;I hadn&#8217;t heard about the marriage &#8220;ruling&#8221;.\u00a0 Who, when, where, etc?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboutpolitics","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}