Posted on 05/15/2008 2:38:55 PM PDT by kellynla
ANN ARBOR, MI The Thomas More Law Center harshly condemned todays 4-3 ruling of the California Supreme Court, holding that the California Constitution requires recognition of same-sex marriages, in an unprecedented overturning of a citizen initiative statute protecting traditional marriage. The three dissenters on the panel argued that the issue should have been left to the political process.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center commented, This outrageous ruling shows how our most cherished institutions are being destroyed by the tyrannical actions of an out-of-control judiciary. The California Supreme Court took judicial activism to a whole new level. When four judges can overturn the vote of the people protecting marriage, the Constitutions guarantee of a Republican form of government becomes meaningless. This battle is not over.
Charles LiMandri, the Thomas More Law Centers West Coast Director, has been named the General Counsel to the National Organization for Marriage. This is the organization spearheading the California ballot initiative to amend the California state constitution to define marriage between one man and one woman only. This ballot initiative recently submitted well over the required number of signatures to be placed on the November ballot.
Charles LiMandri stated, Thanks to the tireless efforts of the National Organization for Marriage, and the many groups that have supported it, like the Thomas More Law Center, the courts will not have the final say on marriage in California the people will in November.
The Thomas More Law Center is in discussion with Charles LiMandri to determine what options are available in the meantime. Richard Thompson commented, There is the possibility that we may ask for a stay in the courts ruling considering that between now and November it would be legal in California for same-sex couples to marry, and come November if the amendment passes it would be unconstitutional again.
The Thomas More Law Center drafted Michigans constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman, which was recently upheld by the Michigan Supreme Court.
I guess the Conan bit WAS an act.
Amen, fellow Freeper, amen! The job of the judiciary is to decide whether something is in keeping with the Constitution or not. If it isn't, the affair is thrown back to the legislative body with "Sorry. No go. Try (re)writing it another way, then we'll see."
It's function is not to decide, "Yes (or No) regarding this case. And now how's we're ordering you to do it."
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Ultra Cliff Notes version of this ruling: “They” use the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. It is for equal application of the laws. The State Supreme Court decided domestic partnership laws don’t protect certain people as well as marriage laws.
Well you have a problem with that argument. I think five of the judges were there from the Wilson and Duke administrations.
Do you think this issue could put California in play in the Electoral College?
Ecclesiastes
Chapter 1
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- 1 The words of David's son, Qoheleth, king in Jerusalem:
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- 2 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!
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- 3 What profit has man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun?
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- One generation passes and another comes, but the world forever stays.
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- The sun rises and the sun goes down; then it presses on to the place where it rises.
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- Blowing now toward the south, then toward the north, the wind turns again and again, resuming its rounds.
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- All rivers go to the sea, yet never does the sea become full. To the place where they go, the rivers keep on going.
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- 4 All speech is labored; there is nothing man can say. The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor is the ear filled with hearing.
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- What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun.
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- Even the thing of which we say, "See, this is new!" has already existed in the ages that preceded us.
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- 5 There is no remembrance of the men of old; nor of those to come will there be any remembrance among those who come after them.
IOW - everything old is new again. This paganistic practice existed in all the great empires - Rome - Athens - etc. Each time society embraced this foolishness, it collapsed. Those who do not learn from history are forced to repeat it.
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I am shocked. Who could ever imagine the gubberment messing up marriage. Gubberment does so well at everything else...
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You need to do some research on Meg Whitman. She is hardly a leftist.
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/index.php
This is one truly ugly election. Hillary is pro-death; Obama takes it a step futher in favor of infanticide and McCain will keep us in the war. He is still the least threatening of all the candidates. Should he be elected, we can expect little will be accomplished as Pelosi and her followers try to block any legislation he may try to pass. With him, we can buy 4 more years.
Hey, what about Jindhal (sp?)?
It is my biggest regret as a Freeper that I opposed Patrick Buchanan’s candidacy in 2000. It was doomed anyway, of course, but it was quite possibly the last time for a conservative to support a major politician in earnest.
My wife, to her credit, voted for Buchanan that year.
PJB is wrong about some things. He is right about a great many more. Too bad such men are unelectable under our republican system of government.
We are so boned.
Yesterday's devastating Polar Bear announcement that will stop Alaskan oil development forever was made by a "conservative Republican" Interior Secretary serving a "Republican" President, enforcing a law signed into being by another "Republican" President.
The Stupid Party's circular firing squad has finally done its job. There is no longer any point in voting. Tyrants in black judicial robes run this country. One vote on the Court trumped a legal, binding election in CA. What a travesty!
Interesting interpretation of what a Republic is.
But at least you know better now. The tragedy is that so many do not.
When the Rotweiler bears his teeth, the puppies do, too.
BUT when the people speak on a ballot initiative (plebiscite?) aren't their decisions to be honored? The people of CA passed Prop. 187 which, after years of dilatory legal mumbo jumbo, was wrongly declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. Gray Davis killed it forever by refusing to file an appeal.
Now our black-robed Masters have decided by a single vote that the will of the people should again be ignored. I'm interested in your explanation of why that should be.
[this is why a Constitutional amendment is necessary - come on Congress, get the ball rolling!!]
I think it is a pure pipe dream if the do-nothing congress will ever get the ball rolling.
The gay marriage issue is a dictionary problem. When two persons of the same sex manipulate each others genitals for sexual gratification they have no intention of making babies. Perhaps from envy they demand the social recognition that married couples get. If the pairing is friendly and extended they want married privileges. Perhaps they deserve some the benefits like health care coverage on one partners job health plan. But lets fix the dictionary and call it garriage, and say they are garried. So when legislators pass laws they can choose to clearly express which legal benefit and responsibility goes to each type of union.
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