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Supreme Court prepares to kill same sex marriage in America (www.peoplesworld.org)

submitted 9 months ago by redtree3@beehaw.org to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

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"Making matters worse, if Trump is elected this year he could veto any congressional attempt to reverse such a disastrous ruling of the Court by passing a law guaranteeing same sex marriage rights."

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[-] MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago

Question because my reading comprehension is bad: would this kill same-sex marriage nationwide, or would it just allow red states to say they won't recognize it? Not to say the latter isn't bad, I'm just curious if this would fuck over my ability to even get married in, say, Washington or Oregon.

[-] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 29 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it essentially makes it a state issue, and each state can ban, or not, and choose to recognize marriages from other states, or not. So if you got married in Washington that might allow same-sex marriage and respect marriages from other states, and then you move to e.g. Tennessee that banned it and didn't recognize out of state marriages, your marriage essentially wouldn't exist there. I also imagine for the case of emergencies and whatnot, if you were traveling through such a state, you wouldn't be recognized as spouses, making it literally a life or death issue for travel.

It's very, very bad.

[-] agegamon@beehaw.org 19 points 9 months ago

Holy shit, I didn't draw up the situation of travelling while married as a problem but you're absolutely right. It's already getting extremely tricky to figure out what places are OK or no-go for trans and NB people, this is just going to make things so much more fucking worse.

Atlanta for example is a massive air travel hub. What if Georgia doesn't uphold same-sex marriage? What about international travellers who are married abroad?

JFC. These idiots.

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 7 points 9 months ago

Shows how sheltered I am, but it never occurred to be that same-sex couples from other countries might have trouble traveling in the US because of this. I just thought of this as an American problem.

That said, I started boycotting tourism to the United States in the Bush administration and haven't been back since. My passport even expired over a decade ago.