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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbySeptember 5th, 2014
There are currently three marriage cases — from Virginia, Oklahoma and Utah — that are currently on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. After this week’s unanimous and entertaining ruling by the Seventh Circuit striking down marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana, Wisconsin’s attorney general says that he will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Late yesterday, 32 other states have filed two briefs asking the U.S. Supreme Court to accept at least one of those cases. Fifteen of those states which currently allow same-sex couples to marry, joined a brief led by Massachusetts urging the Court to overturn the bans. Seventeen other states, led by Colorado, didn’t ask the court to overturn the bans but to clear up a “morass” of lawsuits:
The experience of Massachusetts — the first state to legalize gay marriage — shows that allowing same-sex couples to wed has only benefited families and strengthened the institution of marriage, said Attorney General Martha Coakley. “Laws that bar same-sex couples from marrying are discriminatory and unconstitutional,” she said. “The time has come for this critical issue to be resolved.”
Massachusetts was joined by California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington.
Colorado’s brief argued that the definition of marriage faces legal challenges only the Supreme Court can resolve, and that without a Supreme Court decision, states defending bans could be liable for huge legal bills from future lawsuits if they are overturned. It was written by Daniel D. Domenico, the state’s solicitor general, and Michael Lee Francisco, assistant solicitor general.
Colorado was joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
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enough already
September 5th, 2014
Remember the scene in Rocky Horror Picture Show in which the chorus is singing: ‘delay, delay’?
It rhymes with ‘gay=stay’.
That’s all this is. Drag it out in the hopes Justice Ginsberg dies and the hate-driven Christians can harm us as much as possible.
Which, given that this particular court pays no attention to past decisions when they want to impose a conservative/Christian agenda, means great harm indeed.
Anybody queer who doesn’t vote for the Democrats in the upcoming midterms is making a big, big mistake.
Disciple
September 5th, 2014
I agree and disagree with enough already, I agree that this is probably their goal even though I think it will fail either way. I disagree that voting for either of these broken greed driven business serving parties is worth voting for ever.
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