# Supreme Court \[declines to hear\] same sex marriage cases.\[plus further developments (Ed.)\]

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**Created:** [October 6, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-same-sex-marriage-cases-plus-further-developments-ed/700544 "2014-10-06T13:50:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-same-sex-marriage-cases-plus-further-developments-ed/700544/302 "2015-01-25T23:12:46Z")

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> [@jtgain](#):
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> if a state does in fact have the power to regulate its own **domestic institutions** …

Not only does he fall back on the same arguments, jtgain even uses the same curious terminology that bigots of a previous era used to avoid actually saying the word “slavery”.

Bigotry really doesn’t change much over the years…

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