Judge allows lesbian couple married in Canada to divorce in N.J. (Slouching Towards Gomorrah)

nj.com ^ | 2/6/09 | AP (Obama)

[RU88]

Judge allows lesbian couple married in Canada to divorce in N.J. by The Associated Press Friday February 06, 2009, 4:04 PM A judge in Mercer County has broken legal ground by granting permission to a lesbian couple married in Canada to divorce in New Jersey. Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson, sitting in Trenton, said the state has a long history of recognizing marriages that are valid in the country or state where they are performed. Trenton Times file photo Judge Mary Jacobson The state Attorney General's Office has argued that the union of La Kia Hammond of Trenton and Kinyati Hammond of New Castle, Del., should be dissolved instead as a civil union -- the New Jersey institution that gives gay couples the legal benefits of marriage. La Kia Hammond said she needs a divorce that would be recognized in Canada so she can marry another woman there. Her lawyer said that a civil union dissolution might not be sufficient in Canada.

[RU88]

All you have to do is look at the picture of the "judge" to rest your case. She probably has a "thing" for one of the "gay divorcees."

[gop4lyf]

We are not exactly “slouching” toward Gomorrah. More like on a highway to hell if you ask me.

[Darkwolf377]

When I was a kid in the 70’s, all you heard from liberals was that “it’s just a piece of paper” and marriage was “a dead institution.”

NOW, though it’s this basic human right which should be given to ALL, no matter who they want to join with.

And once they have twisted marriage into something it was NEVER intended to be, they will of course go back to their “it’s just a piece of paper” and “a dead institution” talk—and this time they’ll be right.

[cripplecreek]

There is no real reason they should need to get the divorce here. Well other than wanting it on the books.

[heye2monn]

What about a man with five wives from Kenya? Can he come to New Jersey, stay for while, and get a divorce from number 3? Why not, according to this crazy judge’s logic?

[not2worry]

I think a gay couple divorce would be one for the books! Talk about revenge and an on-going cat fight!

Wonder who their divorce attornies were?

Gay Marriage and Divorce - GREAT PAYBACK.

[Flycatcher]

Does this mean that in New Jersey, an unrecognized contract (a "gay" marriage from another country) can be legalized recognized in order to be legally unbound?

It's a brave new world...

[jocko12]

Just a bunch of Queers and Queer Judges.

[csmusaret]

More like galloping towards Gomorrah.

[RU88]

That's exactly what I was thinking. By her twisted logic that Kenyan should be able to have as many wives as he can legally marry in Kenya and reside with all of them in New Jersey legally. This notion of “equality” is something that has very strong undercurrents in our judicial system. The problem with this is that while we may in fact be equal under the law, i.e. one man one vote, equality is fine as a concept but the reality is that no two people on earth are “equal.” We all have differing strengths and weaknesses. Different desires and needs. Various degrees of motivation. With all of these varying factors it would be next to impossible for any one to be equal in a practical sense.

This is where I think the courts are getting it wrong. Not only do they embrace “equality” in concept, they extend that to “equality” of outcomes. Given the varying degrees of human nature what is happening is a dumbing down of society, i.e. bring the successful down, and the underachievers up as a way of leveling the playing field of society.

This particular case really galls me because if they had no right to be married in the state they shouldn't have a right to divorce there either. This judge is doing nothing more than legislating from the bench in a very perverse way. The rationale being that if it's legal to get divorced this would imply a legal acceptance of the marriage to begin with. Therefore, if divorce of same sex couples is legal, marriage of same sex couples should be as well.

(On top of everything this press release was put out after 4PM on a Friday afternoon as a way of trying to get this under the radar. When I went on to site this morning it was buried deep in the archives already. Unbelievable!)

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01KrL1ilnB4&feature=related
k.d. lang & The Reclines - Big Boned Lesbitarian Gal

[RedMonqey]

“it’s just a piece of paper” and marriage was “a dead institution.”“

Aids and aging baby boomers changed that.(needed to suckled off the government teat)

[ASOC]

Soddom and Gomorrah used to be places in the Bible

Now, we are surrounded by them - figuratively as well as literally.

[csmusaret]

Yeah. From sea to shining sea.

[hunter112]

And you would be less disgusted if she were a lipstick lesbian?

There are thirty states that have prohibitions against same-sex marriage in their constitutions. That means there are twenty that do not. I expect that perhaps two or three of the states in the latter group will join the former group in the next couple of years, but those that remain will allow same-sex marriage.

I fully expect New York and New Jersey to be among the states that allow it. We have a similar situation with states that allow first-cousin marriage, and those that require no closer than second-cousin familial affinity. Only in that circumstance, the ratio is closer to fifty-fifty.

[heye2monn]

All good points. Once you go beyond the traditional male-female union, all bets are off. Traditional marriage, once the bedrock of society, is redefined and distorted beyond all recognition. Wacky judges, decadent adulterers and the promicuous dance on the grave of civilization.

[xrmusn]

Let me see if I have this right.
A couple NOT married, in the eyes of the state, are allowed to get divorced by the state?
If this interpretation of the ‘law’, in regards to getting married in Canada etc is OK, then using ‘logic’ (HA) my right to carry permit in Virginia should be recognized by New Jersey because another Commonwealth or Dominion authorized it????

GOD, the lawyers have got this country all screwed up...

[NinoFan]

Let’s consider a hypothetical. Let us say in one state that it’s illegal for people under the age of 18 to get married and in another state it’s OK for 17-year-olds to get married. If a married couple where both persons were 17 moved from the state that permitted it to the state that banned it, should they be able to get a divorce in that new state?