Posted on 08/12/2010 1:40:03 PM PDT by detritus
Judge Vaughn Walker has lifted the stay on his Proposition 8 ruling, which deemed a ban on gay marriage as unconstitutional.
Walker's ruling last week was ground breaking, but it still kept the ban on gay marriage intact, until Prop 8 was ruled on by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Walker has now removed the stay, and will allow for gays and lesbians to marry in the state of California.
Walker said that he would lift the stay on August 18th. The LA Times reports that the temporary hold on gay marriage is to allow supporters of Prop 8 time to appeal the ruling.
Walker says that gay marriages can resume on August 18th, unless a higher court ruling blocks them....
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Who does this Judge think he is? ...King Obamah?
Society voted, amended their state constitution and got told to F-off by some lone butt-jockey!
Queen Obamah
Well duh, what did we expect?
Logic and honesty from a progressive judge.
We will soon have no other choice than to tell all of them to shove it it up their Obamas.
In other words, disobey.
Period.
How did we let this Yahoo slip under a black robe?
Grr.
Off to the 9th court of repeals, and to the supremes. Justice will be served!
Wish I could get the eff out of California...
NO NO NO!
“THIS JUST IN: Judge says no decision on gay marriages until Aug. 18”
http://www.dailybreeze.com/latestnews/ci_15759061
“Judge Vaughn Walker set the deadline Thursday to give gay marriage opponents time to appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If the appeals court fails to act by 5 p.m. local time next Wednesday, then gay marriages can go forward.”
obama must have a direct line to the judges office.
When the will of the people is ignored by supposed authority, when the ballot loses all meaning and purpose, what is it that they expect the people to do? Simply rollover?
For me, there is much more going on here than the obvious question pertaining to gays. This is one more example of how our country is being ripped apart by the traitorous libs.
I do not know how this nightmare will end, but it most assuredly it will.
Walker is actually a rather conservative judge on other issues; he is one of the more business-friendly federal judges in California. He was originally nominated to a judgeship by Ronald Reagan; the Democratic-majority Senate refused to confirm him because they said he was anti-gay(!). (In private practice, he had represented the U.S. Olympic Committee in a suit against the Gay Olympics for trademark infringement). He was eventually successfully nominated by G.H.W. Bush.
The only one with the actual power to "disobey" the ruling is Governor Schwarzenegger, and he has said that he supports the ruling and is refusing to appeal it (he is the named defendant in the suit). Ted Olson (the lawyer for the plaintiffs) is now saying that the appeal is moot because the defendant agrees with the decision.
This will get interesting at the appellate level. (If I had to make a prediction, I would guess that the 9th Circuit will deny a stay but that the Supreme Court will grant a stay by a vote of 5-4).
Rather ironic case, given the culture in which the Olympics first originated....
The one where they separate the men from the boys with a crowbar?
The good thing is this judge went so over the top substituting extremist left wing platitudes as findings of fact that is should be easy to convince Kennedy to shoot this down.
If your not use to Tyranny from the Bench ? Get that way after this Ruling.
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