CA Supreme Court Refuses To Block Gay Marriages

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[William McKinley]

They refused the Attorney General's request that they issue an injunction preventing further gay marriages to be conducted in San Francisco.

[ladyinred]

Exactly what I knew would happen, and so did the blatant law breaking stinking liberals!

[ladyinred]

"It's the judges, stupid!"

You are soooo right!!!!

[FairOpinion]

Vigilantism and armed resistance is a very very last resort.

There is a much more effective way, totally within the law.

The various conservative factions should overlook their various unimportant differences, and vote in a united way to elect Bush and Republicans and keep electing Republicans, keep appointing conservative judges for the next 20 years.

"It's the judges, stupid"

[okie01]

Some would describe your views as extreme. Particularly as they relate to divorce and elderly (or barren) marriages.

But I don't. And I'm divorced.

Fortunately, my ex- and I were able to amicably resolve the issue of custody even before going to an attorney. And, twenty years later, we both still have a wonderful relationship with our kids. But...we were lucky. And, I recognize, an exception to the rule.

Divorce, when there are children involved, should not be an easy task. "Let no man rent asunder" -- at least, not without considerable thought, effort, planning and sacrifice.

Thanks for sharing your well-developed and comprehensive thoughts on the subject. They are appreciated.

[unspun]

This is the perfect example of the judiciary overruling the will and the law of the People. Is this not judicial tyranny? Of course it is.

Oh come on, who's ever heard of a state supreme court flouting their own constitutional government?

[unspun]

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[KQQL]

There is no emergency here.

True....

The California supremes will strike SF down, ir need be.

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I disagree....the CA SUPREME ct will probably find that CA law passed in 2000 ( to define a marriage between a man and a woman ) violates the Equal protection clause under the CA Constitution.

You can't treat 2 sets of marriages different.....under the current CA Constitution and I doubt RATS in CA will ever let the CA constitution be amendended

[Torie]

California has a provision that its equal protection clause cannot be interpreted more broadly than the federal version, if I recall correctly. Gay marriages have been illegal in California since rocks cooled. The court in California is not going to do a Mass. The court is packed with troglos, and I think has only one liberal on it.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

California is now governed entirely by the Left. The Left will ignore any law not in keeping with its agenda. When necessary, California will rely on its Leftist Judiciary to correct any assault on the Leftist agenda by "The People". Hence propositions enacted by "The People" that are against the Leftist agenda are killed by the communists in black robes". When "The People" wake up, the first order of business will be to imnpeach the "courts". Then the Congress as necessary. Then the administration as necessary.

[SierraWasp]

Great!

What we have here in CA, is a little too much law... And not enough order!!!

[Carry_Okie]

My parents went through five divorces between them. The first was the OJ trial of custody cases. It lasted nine years and cost the equivalent of two houses. There were shrinks. There were accusations of homosexuality (me, it was bogus), paranoia, manic depression, and schizophrenia. There was the battle of the priests. In the end, they split my brother and I. From the time I was ten to the time I was twenty I never saw my mom. The family is a mess to this day.

I left the nest to be homeless with $0.43 and a backpack. It took me ten years of work, virtually a lost decade of my life, to fix the mess in my head. I'm married now fifteen years (with no end in sight :-) with two of the best kids any dad could want, but how I did pay.

So it's from a position of rueful familiarity with the system that I offer those ideas. They're still not organized as well as I would like, but it'll get there. Thanks for a thoughtful read. I've got a whole book of ideas like them in the works. Conservatism could use a dose of creativity.

[Carry_Okie]

LOL. These "marrieds" know exactly what they are getting into. They are not freakin idiots. They also know that there is a law on the books in California making the marriages illegal. It was passed by initiative, and could hardly be missed.

You are assuming that people behave rationally. Gays get rather emotional about their status. I give you the response to Dan White's acquittal.

[BohDaThone]

No. CLinton didn't "fire" any JUDGES. Maybe you mean US Attorneys, who are part of the Justice Department. Or maybe you don't have nay idea what you are talking about?

[McGavin999]

Great, perhaps what we need is not an amendment to protect marriage, perhaps what we need is an amendment that states the rest of us want to toss California and Mass. out of the union.

[ladyinred]

California is a lost cause huh? We did manage to remove a sitting governor because the people here got sick and tired of it. These so called marriages are against the law in this state, and we can't just sit here and ignore the obvious in your face anarchy of the left.

[ZULU]

WOW!!!

What a shocker!!! A State Supreme Court refusing to enforce a state law!! And in Kalifornia of all places!!!

The ARROGANCE of these judges knows no limits!!

(They must have called Deborah Poritz, the New Jersey State Supreme Court Chief Justicess for advice. She would have told them ##@@!!!&** the law. You're the Court, make your own laws!!)

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I sure hope you are right. But, as a case in point, look how many are apparently completely unaffected by 9-11 after 2+ years. It's all about "what can I get from the government" again.

[harpo11]

Damn. Why the hell are we paying taxes which support and pay the salaries and benefits for activist judges and outlaw elected officials if all they do is spit it in our faces and subvert the rule of law?

[BohDaThone]

Not everything "in a state code" is a CRIME to violate. Crimes have to be defined as such. For example, if tax code says "only one house can be claimed as a deduction," it's not a CRIME to do so, unless some other CRIMINAL code says so, or says "Any errors on the tax form are a CRIME."

SO, even if the marriages are as phony as a 3-dollar bill (and I think they are), there is nothing that I know of that says "It is a a crime to give out bad marriage certificates." If there is, then maybe the COunty DA (A very liberal Dem, separately elected) would have a basis to prosecute, but Arnold does not control the COunty DA's.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

IMO, this "homosexual marriage" campaign has been planned and coordinated by the Left and the Democrap Party to become a distraction from national security issues in the 2004 election. I hope this backfires on them with massive punitive results.