Hi, so im a Canadian MTF currently in a long term long distance relationship with a girl from the US and we were wondering how likely it is that the US will ever appoint a new justice and overturn gay marriage. This is because we are going to be relying on me getting a marriage green card if i move there, but obviously that cant happen if gay marriage is repealed. I am however still legally male at the moment so if it does look like it will be overturned I will just not bother changing my legal gender for a long time so we can still get married.
Sorry if thats confusing
>>7854848
Extremely unlikely, and even if it did you could just go to a state where it's legal. That's kind of how our system works (in the broadest nutshell possible). If something gets repealed as a federal policy, it's given to the states to decide.
It is incredibly unlikely the supreme court will ever go back on a decision they make, even with an overwhelming majority left or right base. I think it has happened only once since the supreme court has existed.
You are pretty safe. Even if it does happen (almost assuredly it won't since Trump is incredibly progressive and any supreme justices will care more about current issues like immigration than gay marriage) individual states will disregard it anyway.
>>7854869
>could just go to a state where it's legal
So if we get gay married in a state where its legal and its not legal in other states we could still get a marriage green card? Sorry for the dumb questions i just make to make 100% sure because this is kind of important
>>7854920
Yes, as far as I know, but you'd probably need to live in the state where it is legal. I wouldn't even worry about that though. America's not going to repeal that decision any time soon, despite what you hear on the news.
>>7854944
>what you hear on the news.
Actually i mostly hear it from 4chan that pence is going to convince trump to appoint a far right justice so that it will be repealed because pence has been so anti gay for so long
>>7854912
>It is incredibly unlikely the supreme court will ever go back on a decision they make,
lol this happens all the time.
>>7854955
Not gonna happen. Trump is openly pro-LGBT.