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Justices O’Connor, Ginsburg perform same-sex ‘marriage’ ceremonies inside Supreme Court
Life Site News ^ | October 31, 2013 | KIRSTEN ANDERSEN

Posted on 10/31/2013 9:21:55 PM PDT by NYer

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 31, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week saw two same-sex “weddings” performed within the walls of the United States Supreme Court, presided over by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, respectively.

While same-sex “marriage” has been legal in Washington, D.C., since 2009, the federal DOMA law defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman prohibited such ceremonies from being performed on federal property. Ginsburg voted to strike down a provision of DOMA in June.

Justice Ginsburg, 80, officiated the first of the two ceremonies last weekend, presiding over the “marriage” of one of her former law students, Ralph Lee Pellecchio, 64, to James Carter Wernz, 69, according to an announcement in the New York Times. The “wedding” was reportedly performed inside her chambers.

The ceremony was Ginsburg's third. In August, Ginsburg became the first Supreme Court justice to preside over a homosexual “wedding.” The ceremony for 59-year-old Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and 32-year-old John Roberts, a commodities regulator, was held at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. At the time, both Kaiser and Ginsburg said the couple’s choice of officiant was intended to send a message, legitimizing gay “marriage” in the eyes of the public. Kaiser told the Associated Press her participation "helps to encourage others and to make the issue seem less of an issue, to make it just more part of life."

Ginsburg later said same-sex “marriage” represented the “genius” of the U.S. Constitution.

On Tuesday, retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, 83, officiated the second known homosexual ceremony at the high court, “marrying” two men in a private lounge. O’Connor had previously worked with one of the men, lobbyist Jeffrey Trammell, when she was chancellor of the College of William and Mary in Virginia and he was rector.

O’Connor’s decision to preside over a gay “wedding” at the highest court in America is just the latest step in a long march leftward for the former justice, who was appointed in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan.

In 1986’s Bowers v. Hardwick, the Supreme Court’s first case dealing with the legalities of homosexual activity, O’Connor sided with Justice Byron White, who said a constitutional right to sodomy was “at best, facetious.” At the time, the court upheld Georgia’s right to ban the behavior.

But just 10 years later, O’Connor switched sides, joining Justice Anthony Kennedy and four liberal justices in ruling that Colorado could not constitutionally bar municipalities from passing homosexual anti-discrimination laws, giving homosexuals their first major Supreme Court victory. Then, in 2003, during Lawrence v. Texas, she sided with Kennedy again, ruling that Texas’s anti-sodomy law was unconstitutional.

That ruling invalidated sodomy laws in 13 other states, making sodomy legal nationwide.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: glbt; homosexualagenda; marriage; romney; romneyagenda; romneymarriage; scotus; sodomy
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To: NYer

Both dikes.


41 posted on 11/01/2013 5:17:44 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: NYer
a desecration of a pillar of our Constitutional Republic. Shame on O Connor and Ginsberg!
42 posted on 11/01/2013 5:18:29 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: NYer

Our Founding Fathers are surely spinning in their graves. They never saw this one coming, well actually they did that is why we have the CONSTITUTION.


43 posted on 11/01/2013 5:51:23 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: NYer

The whores of Babylon. I tend to think if whores as attractive, but perhaps they will manifest as crones.


44 posted on 11/01/2013 6:22:49 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: onyx

I can’t believe what is happening to our country.


45 posted on 11/01/2013 8:49:18 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: NYer
One of Reagan's big mistakes.

NO WOMAN should ever serve on the nation's highest court; not even in the appellate system. They are too often influenced by thoughtless emotion.

46 posted on 11/01/2013 8:55:56 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude
NO WOMAN should ever serve on the nation's highest court; not even in the appellate system. They are too often influenced by thoughtless emotion.

Generalize much?

47 posted on 11/01/2013 4:27:02 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: fwdude
They are too often influenced by thoughtless emotion.

You mean like Justice Roberts?

48 posted on 11/01/2013 4:27:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: NYer

The ties between the courts, homosexuality, lobbyists, etc. in DC must be rather strong.

As we saw in Belgium, pedophilia as well.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.


49 posted on 11/01/2013 4:30:38 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: NYer

Putin laughs himself to sleep every night.


50 posted on 11/01/2013 4:42:01 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: Lurking Libertarian; fwdude
NO WOMAN should ever serve on the nation's highest court; not even in the appellate system. They are too often influenced by thoughtless emotion.

Generalize much?
Yeah, not cool, dude.
51 posted on 11/01/2013 6:38:22 PM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: onyx

Jeepers ...


52 posted on 11/01/2013 8:15:08 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: highball; Lurking Libertarian

Name one female SC justice who has not been a raving liberal, either appointed by a Democrat or a Republican.

It’s not “uncool” to point out that there are fundamental differences between men and women. In fact, that is the ONLY ration conservative position to hold.


53 posted on 11/02/2013 5:05:09 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude; Lurking Libertarian

No, it is not. Prejudice is not and has never been a conservative value.

There has been a grand total of one female Justice appointed by a Republican president. Hardly a good sample size, considering it was the same president that gave us swinger Kennedy.


54 posted on 11/04/2013 3:44:52 PM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: NYer; Lurking Libertarian; Perdogg; JDW11235; Clairity; TheOldLady; Spacetrucker; Art in Idaho; ...

FReepmail me to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the SCOTUS ping list.

55 posted on 11/04/2013 3:47:21 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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