Attorneys for Pa.’s Republican governor say gay couples, just like 12-year-olds, can’t marry
Source: Washington Post
HARRISBURG, Pa. Marriage licenses given to same-sex couples in the state are invalid because the couples were barred from marrying, just like 12-year-olds, Republican Gov. Tom Corbetts attorneys said Wednesday.
Corbetts administration has filed a lawsuit seeking to block same-sex marriage licenses in Montgomery County, where Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes has issued more than 150 to gay and lesbian couples since July 24.
State attorneys said in a court filing on Wednesday the gay marriage licenses have no value or legitimacy and cant be defended in court. They compared gay and lesbian couples to children, who cant marry because a 1996 law says marriage is between a man and a woman.
Had the clerk issued marriage licenses to 12-year-olds in violation of state law, would anyone seriously contend that each 12-year-old ... is entitled to a hearing on the validity of his license? the state wrote, according to a story on the Philly.com news website (http://bit.ly/1fk0xSf).
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/attorneys-for-pas-republican-governor-say-gay-couples-just-like-12-year-olds-cant-marry/2013/08/28/531c2c7a-1054-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_story.html
Suich
(10,642 posts)EXACTLY like 12 year olds wanting to marry....yeah...right...the exact same thing.
madashelltoo
(1,698 posts)Really? Why?
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Is there not a single place in this country that's not hopelessly fucked up? *sigh*
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Rick Santorum, Republican of PA, was Mr. Man-on-Dog.
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)my thought exactly...
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)I wonder if his brilliant legal eagles advised him to ignore the 12-year-olds getting raped at Penn State.
Hey Corbett, since your attorneys do not appear to be giving you sound advice, here's my advice, and I won't even send you a bill: No one is trying to marry 12-year-olds, you douchebag. These are just consenting adults looking to exercise the right to marry the one they love. It is illegal for the state to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. Why is that concept so foreign to you?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)Obsessed with underage sex.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Where his hands are dirty.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)More specifically, a shyster.
I paraphrase Churchill, who said something about an idea being so stupid that only an intellectual could have thought of it.
The idea of not allowing a child to enter into a marriage is to protect the child. Is the idea of not allowing two homosexuals to marry to protect either of the homosexuals? I think most gay people I know, who are adults, would assert that they are responsible for making their own mistakes and don't need that kind of protection.
And to draw the conclusion that the plaintiffs in a lawsuit are not even entitled to a hearing on the issue? Just run that one by the judge.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...or say or do to get their way. Sometimes that means they'll do stupid things, other times disgraceful, evil, immoral, unethical, cruel, vile....
Well. You get the idea. Stupid is just one of many things there's no limit on when they want what they want and aim to get it.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)IMHO
DebJ
(7,699 posts)The ONLY good thing about living in Pennsyltuckey (south central PA) is that I get to vote
against these deranged, evil, sick bastids.
tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)In these arguments is not only willfully ignorant, it's creepy.
EC
(12,287 posts)dballance
(5,756 posts)Minors cannot legally enter into a contract. Minors get tried (for the most part) in juvenile court. Minors can't legally consent to sexual relations.
That he's making such an obviously stupid argument as comparison just goes to show they don't have a real, valid argument against same-sex marriage.
On Edit: I think a court, based on the age and maturity of minors, can find the state has a compelling interest in protecting a minor from marriage. The same cannot be said for same-sex couples of legal age to marry. The state really has no compelling interest to interfere with their relationship.
happyslug
(14,779 posts)PA Supreme Court made that ruling in a case where a Teacher was having sex with a 12 year old student. His defense was they had entered into a valid Common Law Marriage. The age of consent to have sex, under the Common Law, had been 12 and since the State Legislature had NEVER addresses Common Law Marriages at all, the Age of Consent to enter into a Valid Common Law Marriage remained at age 12 (The State Legislature made it the law you had to be over 18 to enter into a Common Law Marriage soon after that decision, then in Abolish the right to enter into Common Law Marriages after January 1, 2005).
And in that case, the Court also ruled that Consent of the 12 year old's parents was also NOT needed, for that had been the Common Law Rule in England and thus also in Pennsylvania.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)because he doesn't get the whole 'consent' concept.
Keep kids and livestock away from this guy.