Marriage license void?

[Mike64]

aggression (imprisonment) can only be justified if the 'criminal' is guilty of violence of some sort. Bad mouthing a judge is not violent (unless they were threatened) and ends up being about the vaunted judge ego more than about true justice.

[Ignoring the fact that your first sentence isn't actually a correct statement of relevant law,] while that does happen (and there are arguments on both sides regarding its appropriateness), Davis wasn't imprisoned for "badmouthing the judge." She was imprisoned for refusing - not just failing with even a lame excuse, but affirmatively refusing - to comply with the lawful order of a US District Court. If you don't understand the difference, well, then, never mind, just never mind... and Godspeed.

[] = ETA

 

[Ns1]

Why does anyone seek some authoritarian recognition in order to feel what in their hearts is already true? Marriage is of the two people getting married and no other input or validation is needed.

Because there are legal implications (ie taxes, rights)

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Lets not forget Divorce. I could easily see someone claiming they were never married or someone who is involved with someone else who has money claim that they are married when in fact they are not or there was some kind of celebration that one person accepts as marriage but the other does not or was not aware of.
State has to keep some records on this simply to have a process that everyone understands.

 

[TeeJay1952]

IMHO Crap flows downhill. She is further downhill than she thinks.

 

[nickqt]

Because there are legal implications (ie taxes, rights)

Don't confuse our theory-over-practice philosopher, who claims to live in an imaginary land described in bad fiction, written by a moral degenerate.

 

[Tombstone1881]

aggression (imprisonment) can only be justified if the 'criminal' is guilty of violence of some sort. Bad mouthing a judge is not violent (unless they were threatened) and ends up being about the vaunted judge ego more than about true justice.

Oh good! Does that mean that I can go out and rob a bank, and as long as I'm not violent about it, there is no justification to send me to jail, right?

I can also break into people's houses and rob them blind when they're not home, and being that there would be no violence involved they can't send me to jail?

This opens up a whole new world! I think I'll quit my 9-5 and launch a whole new lucrative career in non violent crimes that jail can't be justified for!

/sarc

 

[NoStateofMind]

Oh good! Does that mean that I can go out and rob a bank, and as long as I'm not violent about it, there is no justification to send me to jail, right?

I can also break into people's houses and rob them blind when they're not home, and being that there would be no violence involved they can't send me to jail?

This opens up a whole new world! I think I'll quit my 9-5 and launch a whole new lucrative career in non violent crimes that jail can't be justified for!

/sarc

 

[sportage]

All you have to do is look at her husbands hat.
I can just see these people, sitting around on the old front porch cursing Obama, cursing the black family that moved down the street, cursed the Hispanic family that bought a farm in the area, cursing taxes, government, schools, Catholics (yes Catholics), cursing the woman next door raising her child with no husband, and certainly cursing anything and everything gay.

They "may" be registered as democrats but I doubt they've voted democratic for a long long time.
I'd like to see anyone who wears that type of racist hat locked up as well.

This is exactly why district gerrymandering works so well.
You simply draw a district to include all of these looney tunes, and there you are.
Assured election of the craziest of crazies to congress.
Ted Cruz, Steve King, Joni Ernst, ect ect .....

 

[pcgeek11]

I'd like to see anyone who wears that type of racist hat locked up as well.

A racist hat?

Really.

You really are "progressive and tolerant " aren't you.