Posted on 07/10/2015 12:12:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
American Samoa stands as the only U.S. territory to hold out against the recent Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage.
But as the Pacific island’s attorney general reviews the decision, legal observers and gay rights advocates are saying it should go into effect immediately.
“It should be unquestioned,” said Rose Cuison Villazor, a professor at University of California, Davis’ law school and an expert on territorial law. “The Supreme Court’s decision was pretty strong.”
American Samoa Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale, however, hasn’t been ready to take that step.
“We’re still reviewing the decision to determine its applicability to American Samoa, and I have no specific comments at this time,” he said. …
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“The Supreme Court’s decision was pretty strong.”
What makes the decision “strong”? All I know is that the majority opinion was weak.
God bless ‘em. They will be made to conform by our new Homofascist overlords sooner or later.
They should declare independence rather than submit to the depraved and illegal SCOTUS “order.”
The fa’afafine (boys raised as “girls” and who live as transvestites; a form of institutionalized child abuse) are the most against gay marriage.
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