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joether -> RE: Utah Gay Marriage Thread (12/20/2013 7:46:04 PM)
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It does beg the question:
How much money has the government spent (local, states, and federal) in creating, maintaining and more importantly defending these sort of laws that are clearly unconstitutional? The funny part is that those laws got put on the books by the very same ideological group that often states it opposes wasteful government spending: conservatives!
As for the first question, that number is not fully known yet.
I had a chuckle at the lawyer's argument in defending this law:
"During a nearly four-hour hearing earlier this month in Salt Lake City, attorneys for the state argued that Utah's law promotes the state's interest in "responsible procreation" and the "optimal mode of child-rearing." They also asserted it's not the courts' role to determine how a state defines marriage, and that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last summer that struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act doesn't give same-sex couples the universal right to marry. SOURCE
The amount of 'FAIL' on display here by those defending the law should be enough to have them disbarred for the rest of their lives. They really do not know why people get married. Or that marriage itself has a heavy load of legal components to it. Or that a careful review of the 14th amendment would show their case was doomed to failure. "...equal protection under the law..." is pretty much how the remaining DOMA-like laws in the remaining states will get undermined.
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