Wisconsin gay marriage ban ruled unconstitutional

WISN ^ | 6/6/14

[Oliviaforever]

A United States District Court judge has ruled that Wisconsin's gay marriage ban is unconstitutional.

Judge Barbara Crabb issued a motion of summary judgment for the paintiffs, stating that Article XIII of the Wisconsin Constitution "violates planitiffs' fundamental right to marry and their right to equal protection of laws under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution."

[Oliviaforever]

“What would the judge do if Scott Walker refused to order the cities to issue marriage licenses?”

The judge would do nothing.

The president would send troops to Wisconsin and federalize the Wisconsin National Guard.

[Doctor 2Brains]

Are we still praying for Ted Kennedy. Come on!!!!!! One last time just for fun’!!!!!!!!! Prayers up for the lion of the senate.

[Doctor 2Brains]

Others???
Most people on this site will be too busy praying for Ted Kennedy to engage in this backlash you speak of.

[Cheerio]

1)Judges have no power to impose gay marriage 2) They cannot make law

1) Agreed they have no power to enforce anything.

2) In case you hadn't noticed during the past 6 years, the Article II branch has been exercising its nonexistent power to make laws, so I would guess the judicial branch is saying to itself "Hey the Constitution is kaput, we might as well get in on this lawless business of making laws also!!"

[clearcarbon]

Once again, the whim of a judge usurps the will of the people.

[devolve]

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- Obama has a golf date scheduled with Bowe as soon as he gets out of the hospital...

[exDemMom]

I do not get this. There has never been legal “gay marriage” and I doubt that any of its proponents could define what “gay marriage” is. The constitution says nothing about the exercise of bizarre behaviors which have never been tolerated in civil society. Yet, somehow, it is unconstitutional to say that marriage is the relationship between a man and a woman who are driven by instinct to form pair-bonds?

[mikefive]

I really wish one of the Governors of the states that keep having an activist judge rule homo marriage unconstitutional stand up and say that marriage is a state issue so as a federal judge, you have no standing to rule on it and then go on to say that any marriage certificates given to so called “same sex” marriage will not be recognized.

[Nextrush]

There’s a pattern to all this that involves judges in states like Utah (before Christmas), Michigan, Arkansas and now Wisconsin (late Friday afternoons) issuing rulings at just the moment that appeals courts closed for several days.

The judges knew what they were doing. They were deliberately creating a window for marriage licenses to be issued to gay couples and ceremonies to be performed before an appeal could reach a higher court to stay their orders.

Its possible an appeals court could agree with their rulings but unlikely since their rulings were ones with immediate effect not suspended pending appeal.

These rulings including the latest one in Wisconsin are very deliberate in your face shoving against existing marriage laws.

If higher courts rule against the lower ones those given licenses and “married” become “victims” for the media and plaintiffs for lawsuits to go beyond man-woman marriage to legalize same sex marriage.

[manc]

I and this family will never accept these people as married, yes they can pretend they are married, but if any of them ever states to me they are married they will be corrected.

So according to these activist judges polygamy should be legal under the 14th amendment and so should everything else.

[manc]

many on here care more about Tiger Woods dating a new woman than issues like this , and issues which the radical left push onto us.

[Kahonek]

“I could see that IF the 14th Amendment were actually relevant here, that states would have to recognize marriages from other states...”

I think you’re mixing Article IV, Section 1 (full faith and credit) with the 14th Amendment (equal protection). The SCOTUS DOMA case cited the former. This case cites the latter.

[xzins]

It would be as hard to repeal as to enact.

[lgjhn23]

“...The president would send troops to Wisconsin and federalize the Wisconsin National Guard....”

That right there would be “the cherries on the frosting” for that azz clown.
I say force his hand and make that mistake. Spending troops for defense of the rainbow fags....DO IT!!!!

[Vaquero]

Take it to scotus and ignore the lower court till then.

[ecomcon]

True, and no national figures have the guts to call the people to account, to rally them, to call them to repentance.

All of this is happening because the people are corrupt and distracted by entertainment and have a pride-of-life, relativist, secular worldview.

Most Americans say they are Christians but obey the dictates of the Judges Of Sodom.

[a fool in paradise]

“Odd” that public offices were open late on a Friday (after 5pm) to issue activist decreed same sex licenses.

Try to do any other public business with the state after 4:30pm on a Friday and you are SOOL.

And taxpayers have to pay for that overtime.

[NKP_Vet]

Polygamy will be next and it will four or five lesbians that will bring the lawsuit because many,many dyke relationships are polygamous.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Is anybody pushing that point?

Perhaps it is time to apply this principle in reverse!

[longfellowsmuse]

I agree with you. Those of us who feel homosexuality is the perversion of a sacred gift must face that we have lost the courts and the majority opinion regarding the immorality of sex acts outside of marriage.

While difficult to acknowledge, the battle for sexual morality was lost when society accepted sex outside of a lawful and sacramental marriage…disease, abortion and the ills of single motherhood all come from fornication without commitment to spouse and God. Once that horse had left the barn so to speak it was only a matter of time before society became more perverse in its sexual appetite and sadly we aren’t at the bottom yet.