Posted on 10/17/2014 11:08:07 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne on Monday said the state would not appeal a U.S. District Court judge's ruling that strikes down Arizona's ban on gay marriage.
Horne said that any appeal of Judge John Sedwick's ruling would be an exercise in futility and that the only purpose it would be to "waste taxpayers' money."
Horne said that while he disagrees with the ruling, based on legal conclusions he issued an email to the 15 county clerks in Arizona stating that they can immediately begin issuing marriage licenses for same-sex couples.
He said he believed there were about 10 same-sex couples at the Maricopa County Clerk's Office lined up to get marriage licenses during his news conference. There is no waiting period to get married in Arizona, he said.
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Only the GOPe ever surrenders on an issue, the left never does
More payback for AZ stand on illegals. The Marxists never forget.
DON’T APPEAL - JUST IGNORE!
Next up: Legalized pedophilia and incest.
With all the problems facing the country, this remains the left’s main concern.
Let's not forget Sharia compliant polygamy.
Golly gee, another Republican that prefers surrender to fighting. What a non-surprise.
The biggest question I have in regards to the current political scene is whether or not Republicans are just innate cowards, or whether they are degenerate lowlifes sharing the identical views of their Dem comrades. My guess is that it’s probably a bit of both.
Voted GOP all my life, but I look at them now, and just want to vomit.
Why?
Dems know that if the states start pushing for conservative judges they can get these rulings overturned. If it's not the law of the federal gov't (Supreme Court ruling) they will not be able to do anything about it.
Iowa already ousted the judges that allowed gay marriage there. Look for many more states to do the same.
AG Scumbag.
” More payback for AZ stand on illegals. The Marxists never forget.”
Obama has been terrorizing AZ since the day he took office.
“Iowa already ousted the judges that allowed gay marriage there.”
Is gay marriage legal in Iowa today?
Traitorous.
An attorney general who won’t defend his own state’s constitution???
It would be nice to belong to a party that stood for something.
As far as revoking it, Iowa has not done so yet. It will take awhile because they have to battle the entire legal system in order to change the legal structures.
Once a bunch of states have installed enough conservative judges they can work together to go the other way on gay marriage. I figure it may take 2 years or so. Maybe less depending on national dynamics (ie how much power the GOP gains in elections and how many more scandals the far left has).
Yes it would.
I have become very annoyed with the Pet Rock Party
The problem, though, is that these state constitutions are being overturned at the Federal level. That is the anti-1st, 10th, and 14th amendment travesty that is happening.
Look, I believe we are being judged for sin—breaking the commandments of stealing (from future generations), murder (of future generations) and adultery (the denigration of marriage starting with “easy divorce”, leading up to this current perversion of the term “marriage”).
At any rate, there will be a change eventually—God won’t allow a society to continue that violates His law.
The federal level is really really screwed up and it is the one, generally, that is pushing this sick stuff.
Yes, it is. Voting out the judges didn’t change the ruling.
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