Basically, Supreme Court has been filled up with people that share the president's agenda, an act that is not exclusive to President Obama. Supreme Court's job is to translate the US Constitution, and to make decisions on certain things based off the Amendments in said Constitution. Gay marriage is never mentioned in the Constitution. In fact, the right to marriage is not included or addressed in the Constitution at all. Supreme Court cannot legally address topics that do not fall into what the US Constitution entails. Instead, they weaseled their way out of it by using the 14th Amendment to say that it is legal. The sections of the 14th Amendment that are related to this topic are as follows:

Section 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.

Section 5.

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Notice how vague Section 1 is. The Constitution is infamous for this. Amendments are vague, which is why we have 27. Also take into consideration when this Amendment was added. Right after the American Civil War. You know, enslavement is bad. The 14th Amendment regards slavery, but because it is so vague, we have the 15th Amendment, which specified that black men could vote. Doesn't that information technically fall into the 14th Amendment? The answer is, we don't know because it's so freaking vague, so we need to make more amendments. That's why we have the 19th Amendment, which specifies that women could vote. Wasn't that already covered in the 14th Amendment? Answer: It's too vague for Supreme Court to do anything.

But now we have Supreme Court using the 14th Amendment to legalize gay marriage; they only specify gay marriage, mind you, as if normal marriage was already in the Constitution, which it isn't. Marriage and gay marriage are not mentioned in the Constitution, and Supreme Court does not have the authority to make decisions regarding them. Instead, the Legislative Branch should have written in a new 28th Amendment, specifying that marriage, between any two human individuals, is protected under that US Constitution.

EDIT: And if we go by Supreme Court's decision to use the 14th AMendment, that means only people born in the US are allowed to marry. If you come here from another country and become a citizen, tough luck.

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I see! I couldn't have asked for a more clear answer to my question.

Thank you for taking your time to reply to me. =)

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Darth is right. Also take notice of the 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.[4]"

Gay marriage (or marriage in general) is not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. Thus, as stated by the 10th Amendment, the right to define marriage must be left to the states to decide. The Supreme Court basically acted like legislators by legalizing Gay Marriage and overstepped their jurisdiction. Under the Obama Administration the Supreme Court has become a laughingstock. They don't care about the constitution and nor do they purport to protect it. They only serve to advance a progressive legislative agenda. Its a political institution, not a judicial institution.

You are very welcome, ZeroBD. Jai has also brought up another valid point as to why Supreme Court done goofed up.

I remember in fifth grade going home on the bus, children shouting

Obama

Obama

Obama

... Those are my three words.

Should be noted that my school district is like 70% black

Hey hey hey...4% of those children supported McCain in 2008. Not every Black supported or supports Obama.

They weren't really black anyway, right Jai? ;-P

i suggest anyone interested in these topics go visit a library and not get their information from ignorant turds on the internet. i could argue all day long about how hopelessly wrong jai and martian are about the constitution, but frankly it's not worth mine or anyone else's time.

have fun spinning arguments guys, though i hope you get bored of it sooner rather than later, cause it is exhausting reading dumb shit like this

^ We could argue about the Constitution, but it's so damn vague that we would hardly be arguing anything at all.

cause it is exhausting reading dumb shit like this

Then shoo, shoo. Don't read it.

True jai ... But those people probably didn't send their kids to public school.

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Ottoman cannons can't melt Byzantine walls. 1453 was an inside job.

I shared that with my history teacher. He frickin died.

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