Posted on 12/22/2013 7:54:49 PM PST by Oliviaforever
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Sunday declined to stop officials in Utah from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples following a judge's ruling last week that overturned the state's ban on gay marriage.
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Where’s incest and bestiality?
It was indeed the 10th circuit that rejected the stay.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/c1c7c4e7027943908fbc990790329bcb/US-Gay-Marriage-Utah
Either New York is there because that’s were the story was filed or it was error. Either way it is extremely poor journalism to not name the court in the article. Fail, Reuters.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
well, something is happening.
will GOP Senate candidates in the heartland talk about how the DEM Senate is undermining marriage in partnership with Obambi?
Or will they talk about legitimate rape?
If Lee Atwater were around, he would pillage any DEM Senate candidate running in any state where 60% of the voters are biblically literate. That includes Lousiana, Arkansas, etc.
According to the article that Impy posted, the 10th Circuit didn’t rule on the stay motion on the merits; it merely ruled that the motion was premature, since the state government had requested that the district judge stay his own ruling and the judge hadn’t ruled yet (the judge’s hearing will be today).
As it is written “Except the Lord of Hosts had left us a very small remnant we would have become like Sodom and and been made like unto Gomorrah.Isaiah 1:9; Romans 9 :29 .When ANY government in America defies God and acts contrary to the Law dictated by God Himself They act contrary to the ordinance of God and our obligation to obey and sustain them ceases. It is so far from being what God has ordained that in the eyes of heaven it may very well be a crime to not resist and oppose them-—see On the right to Rebel Sermon by Samuel West 1776 preached before the very people who later would appoint him to serve on that state’s ratifying committee,when it debated our US Constitution.I expect No less of Americans under this present darkness,today.
They would have to manually modify the existing forms to conform to the new paradigm (unless the homos new of the upcoming ruling and had new forms printed in advance.) Such and unauthorized revision of the state approved document HAS to be illegal and should be voidable when/if sanity finally prevails.
“DISOBEY THAT UNCONSTITUTIONAL JUDGE...Remove him or her from their seat and JAIL them!”
If Scalia of Thomas refuse to step in and quash this Utah decision, the only option left for this and other judges who issue rulings that we find objectionable is to do exactly what you say.
First impeach, and then jail.
If our members of congress do not vote to impeach, we demand that our local officials refuse to follow the judges orders and have our law enforcement officials toss the judges in their jails.
Yes, it was from an AP story posted today:
On Sunday, a federal appeals court rejected the state's emergency request stay the ruling, saying it couldn't rule on a stay since Shelby hasn't acted on the motion before him.
So yesterday's Reuters story was deliberately deceptive. It had the byline "New York" when it was the Tenth Circuit that refused the stay yesterday, solely on procedural grounds. Total journalistic malpractice by Reuters in failing to mention the basic facts, and leading the reader into false assumptions and conclusions!
If the district court judge refuses to stay his original ruling (which in all likelihood will happen) after today's hearing, the state of Utah will undoubtedly go back to the Tenth Circuit and ask the Tenth Circuit again to stay the district court ruling with the procedural barrier now removed.
In the meantime, these MSM articles make much ado about exulting gays and lesbians thronging to the marriage bureau in Salt Lake City (or whatever the heck its called there). I wonder what the majority of the people in Salt Lake City are thinking as they view this surreal scene unfolding before their eyes.
You can’t believe a damn thing you see in “the news” these days. Just one lie after another.
Please see my post # 31.
What would Brigham Young say.
The worst thing is where they don’t even lie, they just flutter around in lala land, talking about movie stars and other crap, while serious s@#$ is hitting the fan. I was forced to endure CNN news at the Atlanta Greyhound station when I passed through for months. It was nauseating. Finally, they switched to the Weather Channel.
I motion ALL judges approved by this communist usurper TOTUS are null and void just like his appointments to the Labor Relations Board!
B.S. Courts have overturned the will of the electorate time after time.
In the new article, they state what was omitted from the original, that the appeals court which rejected the stay was in DENVER (which identifies it as the Tenth Circuit, although no specific mention of the Tenth Circuit is made). They continue to fail to mention, though, the critical point that the Tenth Circuit's rejection of the stay was purely on procedural grounds, i.e., that the Tenth Circuit could not address the state of Utah's motion until District Court Judge Shelby rules on the motion for a stay currently before him.
If Shelby were to issue a stay of his own ruling from Friday, it would be a shocking development. But when he issues his expected denial of the stay, there will be no procedural impediment for the Tenth Circuit to overrule him and grant the stay, and hopefully it will.
The revised updated Reuters article also has quotes from Utah Gov. Herbert critiquing Shelby's decision.
That didn’t take long.
Phil Roberts has already been redeemed.
Some comments:
16 posted on 12/22/2013 11:05:29 PM by Grandma Conservative: “The people of Utah should be demanding heads over this. Utah of all places. If it can happen there it can happen anywhere.”
You are absolutely right on this. Utah is one of the reddest of the red states, due in large measure to the Mormons, and if the federal courts can impose their will on an angrily protesting majority of Mormons in Utah, they can and will get away with it anywhere.
However, it looks like this is being done with more than a little local liberal support. If I understand correctly, the mayor of Salt Lake City was one of the people who presided at these newly authorized “homosexual marriages?” If that's true, it's clear this isn't just a few kooks but some people with **MAJOR** influence right in the heart of LDS territory.
Jeff Head, as one of our key local Mormon Freepers, can you help educate us non-Mormons on how this could possibly be happening in a part of the world which most of us conservatives thought was safe territory for conservative pro-family views? What can you tell us about this mayor, and what can you tell us about church and secular plans to take back Utah from this sort of wickedness? This must be sending shock waves through your Mormon world.
For better or for worse, this is going to have to be a Mormon battle. There aren't enough evangelical Protestants and traditional Roman Catholics in Utah to make a meaningful political difference, so in this case I don't see a realistic role for us outsiders beyond sitting on the sidelines and hoping that conservative Mormons win the fight against homosexual marriage in their state.
19 posted on 12/22/2013 11:33:33 PM by justiceseeker93: “The dateline of the Reuters story is New York, which could not possibly be the location where a federal circuit court taking an appeal from Utah District Court would sit.”
I agree with you that the article leads to confusion. However, I think it is probably unintentional.
The standards for selecting datelines are no longer as firm and fixed as they once were, but the older standard was that the dateline was to be the place where the reporter wrote the story, not necessarily where the story took place. The argument was that a reporter should not use a dateline of a city where he or at least an assistant was not physically present, because it could cause people to wrongly think the reporter had “boots on the ground” when the reporter was not there.
In the modern age of telecommunications and internet, stories are more and more often reported by a staff writer making phone calls and sending emails from someplace nowhere near where the story took place. I don't know the current style of Reuters on datelines, but one of my former editors had previously been a Reuters bureau chief, and datelining a Utah story from where the reporter wrote the story — in this case probably New York City — would be consistent with Reuters practice back when he was working for Reuters.
Hope this helps!
(And Jeff, I'd **REALLY** like to hear from you on this. Most of us in the Freeper world know very little about the internal dynamics of the LDS, and I, for one, value your internal knowledge of these issues.)
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