Posted on 11/12/2008 1:20:55 PM PST by Ol' Sparky
KING: By the way, if you have questions or opinions on Prop 8, you can blog us as well. Judge Judy presided over the marriage of Michael Feinstein, the noted cabaret entertainer, who is starring now in a Christmas show in New York, when he married his long time love interest, and they're a gay couple. And there was a proposition on the ballot in California that would cancel what was placed in by the Supreme Court that gays could get married. That proposition passed. That, in essence, threw out gay marriages. First, those who were married, are they OK?
SHEINDLIN: I believe they are. I don't see -- KING: Eighteen thousand.
SHEINDLIN: I don't see any scenario under which this proposition, which modified the Constitution of the state of California and said that a marriage is only between a man and a woman -- I don't think that you can ex post facto void the marriages that took place when the law was good.
KING: The governor shares your opinion. Governor Schwarzenegger, who has changed on this, now thinks that the Supreme Court can overturn the vote, because it's a denial of civil rights, and put it back into the Constitution that anyone can marry.
SHEINDLIN: Let's see what happens. Will it take it all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States?
KING: What did you think of the vote?
SHEINDLIN: I was saddened by the vote. I was as saddened by the vote here in California as I was in the state of Arkansas, which was equally an affront to both common sense and what I know, in my role as an old family court judge for 25 years, is not in the best interest of children. In the state of Arkansas, they said that no same-sex couple could adopt a child or foster parent a child.
KING: They didn't say that here?
SHEINDLIN: No, they didn't say that here, but they said that in the state of Arkansas. While they didn't specifically refer to gay couples, clearly it was directed toward gay couples. I know so many wonderful same-sex couples who are wonderful parents and wonderful foster parents to children. And why would you allow a children to remain in a foster care situation when there are lovely people prepared to offer them a home? I don't get it.
It's not to say I can't say that I don't respect those people whose religious beliefs suggest to them that this is not right. I think that we're entering an age in this country, through this president, where we should be engaged in tolerance. Just because -- 40 some odd percent of the popular vote voted for more conservative approach to government. You have to say that those people have a perspective, as long as they are not dogmatic, on either side. When I look at Prop 8 and I look at what happened in Arkansas, I say to myself, to me it's just plain wrong.
Having a mommy AND a daddy isn’t in the best interest of the child? Wrong will be right and right will be wrong.
Dingbat alert
Never watched again.
Regardless about how one feels about gay marriage, the Supreme court is not supposed to be making laws. That is the business of the legislative branch.
Dang.... And I used to love Judge Judy.
Another ‘non-practicing’ Jew. Yup.
You should not have been fooled by Judge Judy.
She’s clearly more liberal, but she DOES share the personal accountability values of conservatives.
Stick to small claims, Judy. It becomes you.
I was pretty shocked when I saw her on CNN saying she was saddened about Propl 8..I thought WHAT? a Family Court Judge??? I guess she has been polluted by the Hollwierd Elite...
Me too! but I saw her on LKL a month ago and the same as this, she claims these moral issues are just personal issues(unlike discrimination) , but has no trouble forcing men to get DNA tests and then taking their paychecks and throwing them in jail for their sperm/money. She is a child support jihad, but that to her is a PUBLIC issue. She needs to read the constitution about powers, freedom and democracy.
Gays marrying is mocking marriage.. If gays can marry then marriage for anyone has become silly.. Which appears to be the purpose in the first place..
If I owned slaves before passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, do I get to keep them? No.
The amendment to the CA constitution would seem to invalidate gay “marriage” by its simple wording. It leaves no grandfathering of previous “marriages”.
Liberals have been clamoring for a “living” constitution, but they get their panties in a tizzy over something that’s unequivocably written? Serves them right.
Me, too! And I agree with the DVR thing. I season-pass Judge Judy to watch when I have nothing else going on, but she does make me cringe sometimes when she calls people a liar. I totally thought she had conservative moral values.
The law restricts unmarried couples from adopting. Presumably single gays as well as single heterosexuals can adopt in Arkansas. Unmarried couples whether they are same or opposite sex cannot adopt.
Bring in the Dancing Lobsters.
Maybe then government should get out of the marriage business. But then again maybe that’s what libs want..
Judge Judy is big in the UK.... and I happened to see this interview on CNN (free to view in UK - (AlJazeera Europe is suprisingly good, less biased than CNN anyway and more informative on global issues) ...anyway... Judge Judy was soooo liberal.
I was taken aback.
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