Posted on 10/10/2008 8:41:20 AM PDT by NinoFan
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marry.
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Not suprising. My homestate is very deep blue.
Of course they choose to do this at a time when it is too late to get a marriage ammendment on the ballot.
More legislation from the bench.
This will be a mistake. Do they really want to turn everyone’s attention back to Gay marriage?
hmmmm.... what's happening at the State Capitol at 5:30 pm??
Its not a marriage.
I don’t recognize it as such
The Catholic Church will not recognize it as such
And God won’t recognize it as such
CT doesn't have ballot measures.
what’s the procedure to change the CT constitution?
you will be sent to the Obama Messiah Sensitivity Retraining Education retreat for the criminally insane...
big obama loves you.
Every 20 years, there's an automatic provision on the ballot in which voters can opt to call a Constitutional Convention. It just happens that 2008 that provision is on the ballot. A constitutional convention could propose an amendment outlawing gay marriage, or it could add a ballot initiative provision to the state constitution.
Exactly - which is why I am strongly leaning towards voting "YES" for the Constitutional Convention.
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Only problem with this: the far-left gay marriage supporting Democratic legislature are the ones who would elect the delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
I grew up on a dairy farm in Connecticut. One thing I remember, I never once witnessed a Holstein bull humping another bull.
I got the hell out of there right after college.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I count 8 Subprime Injustices!
How many 4-4 votes do they end up with????
The RINO governor said she believes that most people in her state do not support this decision, but that she will not challenge it. Does that make any freaking sense?
I believe that one of them - Sullivan - is actually “retired” and only sits in as needed. He’s for the most part a good guy. He lives in Waterbury, my city - probably the most Conservative “blue city” in the country. Mostly all Democrats, but not too many liberal tendencies.
None. One of the judges, William Sullivan (a Republican) holds "senior status," which means he doesn't join opinions of the full court.
Doing nothing always leads to defeat. Republicans seem to be very good at doing....nothing....these days. I doubt their grandchildren are going to thank them for it.
I hope the people of Conn. are outraged. I mean......thoroughly outraged. There's an election coming up, and forced homosexual normalcy is left wing, i.e., Oboma.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Friday that she disagreed, but will not fight the ruling.... those in offices and positions of power an authority allow it, they surrender to it."The Supreme Court has spoken," Rell said in a statement. "I do not believe their voice reflects the majority of the people of Connecticut. However, I am also firmly convinced that attempts to reverse this decision - either legislatively or by amending the state Constitution - will not meet with success."
May our dear G-d give us the strength withstand this, and the help to do what "Governors" are not doing. To fight it. To prevail for the good.
The seeds for a new civil are being planted.
does not matter.
This is no longer a “safe” issue for politicians.
Politicans know about outrage, they saw it in immigration and this recent bailout.
vote yes and then nail these sob’s.
I have no idea what to do to change this trend.
It's seriously super frustrating. I'd move back to upstate NY where I am originally from, but it looks like they're on the same path as CT, MA, CA...
Democrats, even those on the bench, tell us the U.S. Constitution is flexible.
That means the rule of law is flexible.
If that is the case the law and the Constitution mean nothing.
It means that the law and the Constitution are twisted by the whims and fancies of the moment.
How many 4-4 votes do they end up with????
Yeah, that's how many I count as well. There are 8 of 'em, but the decision was 4-3. Which 3 wrote the dissenting opinions?
I'm outraged by this... just wrote to my state senator John Kissel (R), but I suspect - like MA and CA - this will remain the Law of the Land, and we're stuck with it. State by state, gay marriage will be legal in the majority of the US (at least in the blue states) before we know it.
This country is truly going to hell in a handbasket... :-(
Apparently, all you need to do is to get 4 ultra-liberal justices on the state supreme court to rewrite it.
Yup. Check out the wording of the ruling:
Like these once prevalent views, our conventional understanding of marriage must yield to a more contemporary appreciation of the rights entitled to constitutional protection.
The NY Constitution specifically states marriage is between a man and a woman.
That's why the politicians in NY city tried to get gender erased from birth certificates. Their idiotic attempts failed, of course.
Should they change their name to South Massachusetts or
East New York?
Yup. My husband wants to get out of Connecticut in a BIG way lately, mostly due to the liberalism and high taxes here. Unfortunately we're stuck here because of his job and my family for the time being, anyway. Someday - I'm not sure when - we will most likely move to a Red State. There's so much I would miss about CT and New England as well, but it's getting tougher and tougher to put up with this crap with each passing year.
We love Virginia, and have considered moving there, but it appears that even former Red State Virginia is quickly going from "purple" to Blue, which I find incredibly appalling and sad...
Well, we already have Sodom Massachusetts. How about Gomorrah Connecticut?
You are absolutely right. We are in for a chastisement (my opinion).
West Virginia is a very Democratic state but with all the red necks here I just can not imagine queer marriage passing here.
In fact there was a case in Huntington, WV where a gay man was robbed and beaten into a coma. He came out of it but there are days where he is on Planet Earth and days he is not. The man who did it only got two week in jail and there are some who say he got away with it because the man he beat was queer. We even had bigwigs from DC in to investigate this and it was on WOWK-TV. I believe there are a lot of homophobes in Huntington, as well as the rest of the state.
You could come here!
I am in the same situation as you. My husband will not move out of New York. He has a good job here and he fears that he will not ean the same in other states. The second scenario: he is open taking a job overseas if the situation was right. Did you also here the latest move from these leeches? They want to tax our 401k and Roth/IRA Plans, God help us all. Good luck to you and your family./Just Asking - seoul62.
This country is truly going to hell in a handbasket... :-(
Article: Conn. Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage case
State of Connecticut Judicial Branch (click on Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health and Dissents 1-3)
Check out an excerpt of the ruling:
Like these once prevalent views, our conventional understanding of marriage must yield to a more contemporary appreciation of the rights entitled to constitutional protection. Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the otherwise qualified same sex partner of their choice. To decide otherwise would require us to apply one set of constitutional principles to gay persons and another to all others. The guarantee of equal protection under the law, and our obligation to uphold that command, forbids us from doing so. In accordance with these state constitutional requirements, same sex couples cannot be denied the freedom to marry.
Disgusting and infuriating...
correct
it is just a sham marriage nothing else.
So now they get more liberal judges to ignore the law, the will of the people
Oh did I say that this robbery was caught on a bank video camera at 3 am? So it was not like they did not have evidence. The man still only got two weeks in jail for beating and robbing a queer man. The man will never be the same.
Look at the world around us,the headlines,news here on fr,it’s going to get ugly fast people. World governments talking about shutting down the markets and the U.S. just might be electing the most liberal candidate for President who is militant on the abortion issue and other far left causes. Some people who don’t even believe in the anti-Christ are now seriously thinking about it. Yup Obama is our new savior. God have mercy on us. How did this great country get like this? 50 million dead children through abortion,gay marriage? We reap what we sow!
I hear you and I’m sorry to had to happen to you as well
My wife is from Ma, sometimes it was embarrassing travelling the country with a MA plate as when we got talking to folks they all thought we were far left looney homo loving radicals.
After the homo sham marriage was forced on the people even though the people wanted to vote on it and the were denied(so much for tax with representation).
Anyway we moved out of that awful state and it was the best thing we ever did. it wasn’t hard for me as I ma not from there but the wife who is said she is finally happy to get out.
We know many others who moved after that sham marriage or because of how looney left it has become and they either moved south or most moved to NH.
That way they were still near family, some near their job and they still had the same weather sort of.
I would recommend getting out to NH as many other republicans have done.
At least you are helping to keep the state a bit red
god luck but honestly move out now
No CA will pass their state constitution, here in Florida we are
if the people fight back then it can be reveresed as CA have proved
Wow. Where in any Constitution does it say that any behavior, no matter how vile, has to be considered normal under the law? What about bestiality? If an animal will stand, it gives it's consent. Why can't, under this description of Constitutional protections, humans marry animals? This description also opens the door for foot fetishists to marry shoes.
more and more states are getting rid of homo marriage so the judges cannot force this perverted way of life on to the majority ..
fight back or move to NH if you are in CT or VA IF like the seasons and being near big cities
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