US District Judge Martin Feldman argued in his decision that the ban doesn't violate rights established in the Constitution's due process and equal protection clauses, which contradicts what other courts have argued following the Supreme Court's 2013 decision.
September 3, 2014
Federal judge upholds Louisiana ban on same sex marriage
Vox - For the first time since the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on same-sex marriage, a federal court upheld a state's same-sex marriage ban — in Louisiana.
US District Judge Martin Feldman argued in his decision that the ban doesn't violate rights established in the Constitution's due process and equal protection clauses, which contradicts what other courts have argued following the Supreme Court's 2013 decision.
"Public attitude might be becoming more diverse, but any right to
same-sex marriage is not yet so entrenched as to be fundamental,"
Feldman wrote. "There is simply no fundamental right, historically or
traditionally, to same-sex marriage."
US District Judge Martin Feldman argued in his decision that the ban doesn't violate rights established in the Constitution's due process and equal protection clauses, which contradicts what other courts have argued following the Supreme Court's 2013 decision.
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There is no fundamental right to marriage at all. Marriage is something that the govt has sometimes required of people, as in common law, but it has never been something that individual people can require of the govt. The Supreme Court will have corporations marrying next. Napoleon got it right.
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