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Posted on 08/04/2010 1:45:48 PM PDT by tsmith130
Court enjoins enforcement of Prop 8... Will be released at 2 pm pt...
Judge strikes down 'Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California'..
That's right. Two points: First of all, the "will of the people" means nothing in California. Seems like whenever a proposition is passed, the LOSER (in caps for a reason) merely has to find a sympathetic judge to overturn it, or at least take the teeth out of it. Remember Proposition 187? Second, if there's any silver lining in this cloud, it's that over 90% of decisions from the 9th Circuit that make it up to SCOTUS are overturned. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
For the most part, our political system is beyond repair. The information age and the ubiquitous media has made it a game only for the worst of narcissists. You will continue to be frustrated until you come to the inevitable conclusion that your vote is worse than worthless - it’s mocked, stolen, and used against you. Ronald Reagen was the last great leader this country may ever see (as we know it now), and I’d say the over-under is about, oh, FIVE years, before we start seeing real unrest here. Long enough for twentysomethings to fall into utter despair as they watch their futures go down the drain. Then comes the bloodletting, the emergence of the “Young Turks”, and we start over.
I believe that any liberal pro-homoperversion voter who availed themselves of the democratic process and voted in the Prop 8 referendum has no right to litigate afterward because his side lost. If you play by the rules, you tacitly agree to abide by the results.
How about a freerepublic survey?
“Do you respect Judges?”
__No, they rule without regard to law or constitutions.
__Somewhat, some judges get it right
__Yes, I respect judges because it is a hard thankless job.
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This is not about taking away voting rights or imposing indentured servitude.
WE MUST NEVER FORGET:
This case is 100% about RECREATIONAL SEX. This judge was validating himself by imposing a FEDERAL ENDORSEMENT OF homosexual based recreational sex acts.
Insurance, etc. is not the issue.
Society rewards the institution NOT the individual.
this judge just imposed recreational sex rewards are the taxpayer.
BTW what the heck were the prop 8 supporters doing with their lawyers?
... and with apologies to Rev. Billy Graham, if God doesn’t judge us harshly for this, He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
I have a fundamental right to “X” therefore I may take it.
nice house? take it as a fundamental right.
This judge just imposed a kleptocracy via mob rule.
I’ve thought for a long time that civil war is the only solution. Both sides need to just fight it out, wipe the other side off the face of the earth, and build society in the mold of the winner.
To hell with laws the progressive say -who needs laws when you can simply redefine terms and reinterpret policy!
Asinine argument, and I'm sick and tired of the lazy libertarianism that breeds it. Does the existence of marriage somehow obilgate how others see and behave toward the couple? I think you will admit that it does. Society, including the state, must recognize marriage because of what it is and what it means: pretection from testimony against a spouse, inheritance, obligation to support and not abandon, just to name a few. Who enforces these understood obligations? Just the couple who enter into them? A religious group which performs the union? By what right?
The state doesn't create marriage any more than it creates the children that result from such unions. It doesn't even regulate marriage; it is up to the people involved how to conduct themselves and even how the marriage is performed - there is no state "liturgy" or magic words. The "license" fee is a nominal, one-time administrative cost, which doesn't even cover the real "cost" of what it takes to get everything filed and finalized. What kind of way is THAT to run a "business?"
The gays don’t care about getting married, they can already have all of the benefits, thereof.
This is about the state sanctifying and normalizing homosexual behavior.
I agree totally! Hopefully we can get the law of unintended consequences to work for our side for once. It would awesome to eventually see the tax laws get gutted over this gay marriage issue!
The stay is only two days while both sides argue if there should be a longer stay on appeal.
You avoid California because of a judges ruling? The people of California voted for Prop.8.
A judge just overruled the will of the people. Get your facts straight before you go running off at the mouth.
It goes even deep that that. There is a real, palapable contempt for everything Christian or even American (Christianity embodied in a society) that the homosexual liberals foster deep within their being. It's not just about unfettered acceptance through normalization, but about destroying Christian morality by any means. Normalization is just a means to this end.
“You avoid California because of a judges ruling? The people of California voted for Prop.8.
A judge just overruled the will of the people. Get your facts straight before you go running off at the mouth.”
To hell with that whole state. I hope an 9.0 hits, real soon.
Good point.
According to this judge, voting is irrelevant when it affects a particular group's perceived right.
That the majority of California voters supported Proposition 8 is irrelevant, as “fundamental rights may not be submitted to [a] vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.”Horsesh*t!
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