(June 26, 2015 at 3:20 pm)Aroura Wrote: Finally!
Hopefully the next pres doesn't appoint anew justice that will undo it.
In the history of justice in this country, it is damned near impossible once rights are extended, to take them away. Unlike the ACA, which they will try to undue and continue to fail, gay marriage will stay, just like when interracial marriage became nationwide. Just like women getting the right to vote. I can bitch about lots of the problems this country has had, but progress always happens, it takes time, sometimes you take a couple steps back, but we've always progressed.
The only thing you really are going to see now from the GOP is lip service, and loopholes to discriminate outside that institution of marriage. But no, there is no chance now that gay marriage itself, will be reversed. Only a constitutional amendment would work and that would take a 2/3rds majority state vote and considering the growing climate of acceptance especially with the younger generation, that would be highly unlikely.
I'd be more worried about what a GOP Pres SCOTUS appointment would do to our economy considering the floodgates they have opened already with Citizens United.
