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To: Alter Kaker
The outcome was preordained - all the judges on the court are liberal Dems. Link to the opinion (don't read if you believe in traditional marriage - you will seethe with anger):

Read the New Mexico Supreme Court's opinion

From the New Mexican:

News of the ruling, which comes after a number of county clerks in the state already started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples earlier this year, spread quickly on social media and touched off celebrations among marriage-equality advocates, who plan a 6 p.m. rally tonight outside the Supreme Court building in Santa Fe.

16 posted on 12/19/2013 12:47:58 PM PST by CedarDave (Small town America - last stand for God, freedom, civility, and American values.)
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To: CedarDave
From the opinion:

We conclude that although none of New Mexico’s marriage statutes specifically prohibit same-gender marriages, when read as a whole, the statutes have the effect of precluding same-gender couples from marrying and benefitting from the rights, protections, and responsibilities that flow from a civil marriage. Same-gender couples who wish to enter into a civil marriage with another person of their choice and to the exclusion of all others are similarly situated to opposite-gender couples who want to do the same, yet they are treated differently. Because same-gender couples (whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, hereinafter “LGBT”) are a discrete group which has been subjected to a history of discrimination and violence, and which has inadequate political power to protect itself from such treatment, the classification at issue must withstand intermediate scrutiny to be constitutional. Accordingly, New Mexico may neither constitutionally deny same-gender couples the right to marry nor deprive them of the rights, protections, and responsibilities of marriage laws, unless the proponents of the legislation—the opponents of same-gender marriage—prove that the discrimination caused by the legislation is “substantially related to an important government interest.” Breen v. Carlsbad Mun. Sch., 2005-NMSC-028, ¶ 13, 138 N.M. 331, 120 P.3d 413 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).

BOLD = B.S. -- it is proponents of traditional marriage whose rights are being trampled!

19 posted on 12/19/2013 12:53:39 PM PST by CedarDave (Small town America - last stand for God, freedom, civility, and American values.)
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To: CedarDave

Sodomy holds forth in Santa Fe (AKA San Francisco of the east).


21 posted on 12/19/2013 12:56:04 PM PST by CedarDave (Small town America - last stand for God, freedom, civility, and American values.)
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