Posted on 10/30/2014 7:28:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Evan Wolfson and Ted Olson aren't pleased with the Supreme Court's decision not to make marriage equality the law of the land, but they're ready to keep fighting.
In the heat of the civil-rights fight, when told he shouldn't push too hard for racial equality because of political backlash, Lyndon Johnson famously shot back, "What the hell's the presidency for?"
Ted Olson had a similar question for the Supreme Court Wednesday, pondering why the justices had opted not to take a single case on same-sex marriage this term.
"I agonize over the court not making a decision," said Olson, an attorney on one of the cases. "We give them lifetime appointments, and you’re supposed to make hard decisions. It brings tears to my eyes, actually physically, when I see people suffering ... It seems inhuman to make people wait just for the Court to decide."
Olson—an experienced Supreme Court litigator and solicitor general during the George W. Bush administration—allowed he might have made the case differently with the judges present, but his commitment to the point was clear. Nonetheless, a talk by Olson and Evan Wolfson at the Washington Ideas Forum Wednesday had the tempered optimism of fighters who know the end is in sight.
"We are winning, but winning is not won," Wolfson said. "It's not a done deal until it’s done. It's not going to waft in on waves of inevitability."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Ted Olson can burn in hell. This man is the biggest piece of crap to ever come out of the Bush admin. Makes me vomit
Capitulation on this and amnesty and everything else
and the GOPE will still demand our votes as the “lesser evil”
There was a lot of crap coming out of that admin
The “end of the gay-marriage fight” is when the laws of nature and nature’s God come down on your head like a ton of bricks.
Good luck with that.
Such a drama queen.
An opinion forced on the people by black robed emperors will not stand.
Her death changed him. But he is not honoring her memory.
I agree that they should make a decision and make it honestly. I hope Ted will fight afterward for rights of free association.
Ted is upset that the courts aren’t overturning the will of the people fast enough to suit him. It makes him cry. Awwww.
Their end game is to force churches to perform these ceremonies. It won’t be overt, and it’s actually better for them if it’s not the law of the land. They want the threat. That way they can bully churches, without having to take on The Religion of Peace over it. It’s an attack on the Christian church.
If federal judges are going to legislate from the bench, then they should be subject to the same checks on their power as the legislative branch- limited terms, elected, and furthermore subjected to recall elections at any time.
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