I don't know about that. Judge Napolitano, who is usually pretty accurate, thinks Kennedy would vote with the liberals on this one. Kennedy previously voted with them to invalidate a Colorado law that interfered with gay rights.
Kennedy went out of his way to exclude marriage from the holding in Lawrence. Given how horribly written this opinion is, he would have to be a complete activist detached from reality to uphold it. The opinion is that bad.
The Colorado law did not interfere with gay “rights” I was here at the time. It merely prevented assigning gays protected class status.
Yep. I think SCOTUS is going to kill the ban.
Marriage is a legal institution, not a religious one. It’s a legal one because we have to go down to the courthouse to get a marriage license. The courthouse is a government building of the judicial branch of government. It is not a house of god. Ever wonder how athiests get married? They don’t go to church. They dont ask a priest. They go to the courthouse and get married by a judge or a Justice of the Peace. The courts dont give a damn about religious traditions or what religious texts say.
The only thing that is going to stop this is a constitutional amendment. And considering all the other problems facing the country, gay marriage is not going to be a very high priority on the minds of voters.
True, but in CA's case, Prop 8 was a constitutional change, not simply a passed law.