Posted on 05/26/2009 10:10:45 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO – The state Supreme Court has upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, but also decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect will stay wed.
The decision Tuesday rejected an argument from gay rights activists that the ban revised the California constitution's equal protection clause to such a dramatic degree that it first needed the Legislature's approval.
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I’d love to hear the legal basis for allowing the 18k farce-marriages to stand.
The correct decision.
KTVU 2 web site..
State Supreme Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban
http://www.ktvu.com/news/19561372/detail.html
In a stunning defeat to gay marriage supporters, the California Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of Proposition 8 – a voter approved ban on same-sex marriages.
Ex-post facto, maybe? The marriages were at one point valid (due to judicial fiat), then the Constitution was changed to say they were not...
Ex post facto?
“Empathy” is all the legal basis the Left feels it needs.
Don’t worry within just a couple of years most of them will be divorced. They don’t really have a track record of lasting very long.
How long to the next traffic stopping gay march?....Move to Vermont you damned corn holers!
"I'm married and you're not, nya nya nya nya nya nyaaaaaaaaaaaa"
Are we going to be treated to a new round of temper tantrums in the streets tonight?
Let’s hope the SanFran chapter of Pink Pistols keeps their cool.....
Me, too - but it may be the perfect irony that those “marriages” will die in a generation, just as all homosexual relationships will, as no natural progeny are possible by natural means.
Colonel, USAFR
Far from a stunning defeat. The 18k marriages that stand will just lead to another voter initiative, then another, then another until they legalize this abomination.
“I’d love to hear the legal basis for allowing the 18k farce-marriages to stand.”
I was thinking the same thing. Sounds to me like they left that 18,000 as “precedent” for future suits.
Thank goodness for Tivo .. and the Delete key, huh? ;-)
It was constitutional before it was unconstitutional. /Sarc.
None of the existing marriages will last more than 2 years.
It’s a bit wishy-washy but I believe it is the legally correct decision. Don’t see how you can go back and change what already happened if it was legal at the time.
It keeps their foot in the door.. The Left will never give up.. and neither can we.
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