"We, the People, have spoken."
Posted on 05/15/2008 10:18:34 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has overturned a gay marriage ban in a ruling that would make the nation's largest state the second one to allow gay and lesbian weddings.
The justices' 4-3 decision Thursday says domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage. Chief Justice Ron George wrote the opinion.
The city of San Francisco, two dozen gay and lesbian couples and gay rights groups sued in March 2004 after the court halted San Francisco's monthlong same-sex wedding march.
The case before the court involved a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn a voter-approved law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
With the ruling, California could become the second state after Massachusetts where gay and lesbian residents can marry.
"What happens in California, either way, will have a huge impact around the nation. It will set the tone," said Geoffrey Kors, executive director of the gay rights group Equality California.
California already offers same-sex couples who register as domestic partners the same legal rights and responsibilities as married spouses, including the right to divorce and to sue for child support. It's therefore unclear what additional relief state lawmakers could offer short of marriage if the court renders the existing ban unconstitutional.
A coalition of religious and social conservative groups is attempting to put a measure on the November ballot that would enshrine California's current laws banning gay marriage in the state constitution.
The Secretary of State is expected to rule by the end of June whether the sponsors gathered enough signature to qualify the marriage amendment, similar to ones enacted in 26 other states.
The cases before the California court were brought by the city of San Francisco, two dozen gay and lesbian couples, Equality California and another gay rights group in March 2004 after the court halted San Francisco's monthlong same-sex wedding march that took place at Mayor Gavin Newsom's direction.
"We, the People, have spoken."
It was inevitable. Never mind what the majority of California citizens want. The narcissistic judges follow the money showered by narcissistic gays who are so enamoured of their own bodily orifices and appendages that they crave others built exactly like themselves to play with, like toddlers. I recently read that the gay market has $60 billion in disposable income, which is why they are pandered to by politicians, media, and corporations. And you ain’t seen nothin’ yet, wait ‘til Obama is president. Can we just find a state and secede NOW?
,,,and the march to the far-left, liberal, nirvana-world contines.
Sorry, “do not separate” = “do not equate”
State government like this is why, when it comes to levees, I’d rebuild New Orleans’ and blast Sacramento’s.
Overwhelming Majority of the SC Judges who gave this decision are Republican appointees.
HURL.
We deserve this. Doomed.
Now, more than ever, we need Alan Keyes for President.
Before it’s too late.
He’s the complete Reagan conservative who has been right all along.
The McCain GOP will do little more than wink at this travesty.
Now that the RNC has McCain’s pro-globaloney stuff up on their website, now they can add pro-gay-marriage links. Why wait?
Here in Long Beach we have to endure the "Long Beach Pride" festival this weekend.
Can you imagine - a whole city officially taking PRIDE in sodomy?
Tried doing a search through federal law for the national ruling on perversion, but could not find anything meaningful - but in my search I did come across the Clintons' tax records! LOL.
Not to mention other unspeakably horrible diseases and conditions.
Gay bowel syndrome, which has also been described as gay bowel disease, was named as an illness in 1976 in the medical literature via the journal Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science. Gay bowel syndrome is a clinical pattern of anorectal and colon diseases which occur with unusual frequency in homosexual patients...http://www.hopkins-hivguide.org/literature_review/02-2004/new_look_at_gay_bowel_syndrome.html
RESOURCES
http://www.fda.gov/Cber/faq/msmdonor.htm
http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/Books/lbb/x590.htm
Ronald M. George, (since 1991), Chief Justice (elevated in 1996)
Marvin R. Baxter, (since 1991), Associate Justice
Ming W. Chin, (since 1996), Associate Justice
Carol A. Corrigan, (since 2006), Associate Justice
Joyce L. Kennard, (since 1989), Associate Justice
Carlos R. Moreno, (since 2001), Associate Justice
Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, (since 1994), Associate Justice
The Court currently has six Republicans appointees (George, Kennard, Baxter, Werdegar, Chin, and Corrigan) and one Democrat (Moreno).
Dunno.
The part I like is that he doesn’t really have to...the last thing the Donks need is having this issue raise its head again in the middle of a rocky campaign. They are on the wrong side of this very emotional issue, and it’s gonna hurt them.
And if the constitutional amendment gets on the ballot, it will pass. So the liberals on the Cali supreme court get a smackdown, and Obama has to try to avoid getting mixed up with this. Cool, I say.
California, at least. And they've been spiraling for some time now.
Good grief. More legislating from the bench. That’s the grossest part of this. The courts usurping the power of the legislature.
Don't you think it's worth the effort?
Not yet. Maybe last hour it will come up.
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