[Red_Devil 232]

We all knew this would be the ruling!

[Persevero]

So do the homosexuals get to “marry” now, pending the Supreme Court? Or do they have to wait? Anyone know?

[DNA.2012]

At what point does America stop kneeling before judges?

[Pollster1]

The state constitution is unconstitutional because it bans a form of sham marriage that is banned by a federal law and not addressed in the United States Constitution? Only the 9th Circuit could make that up.

[conservativebabe]

Surprise surprise. Legislating from the bench. By all means, let’s re-elect Obama so he can seat more activists until we no longer have a need for legislators at all. It’s the coming American way y’all.

[Grunthor]

The same people that want to get rid of the electoral college because it denies the will of the people applaud this decision denying the will of the people.

[Williams]

Didn’t you know our Constitution was intended to allow men to marry? How foolish of us.

Also our Constitution prevents the people of a state from choosing their own laws.

So facinating because almost every state bans gay marriage. But this one state in which people voted was out of step with the Constitution.

Black is white and white is black, we’re through the looking glass here, people.

[wbill]

The 9th Circus? Shocked, I say......shocked.

[Jane Long]

Why bother to vote (especially in KA)?

The judges WILL decide for you! Stay home on your couch and watch American Idol.

[Mariner]

I'm thinking the USSC will rule gay marriage is legal.

The only way to stop it is a Constitutional Amendment.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Since when do people have the ‘right’ to get marrried? We heteros don’t! It’s not a ‘right’,it’s a choice.

[Ohioan]

The absurdity of this offers one more example of a crushing reality. Much of America, today, is in the grips of a pervasive Collectivist/Egalitarian fantasy, which makes Lewis Carroll's description of "Wonderland," seem only stark realism by comparison.

No one who actually understands the concept of marriage-or for that matter the unsanctified procreational mating procedures of other warm blooded creatures--can possibly see this as anything but absurd. Human marriage customs & procedures reflect an understanding of the multi-generational function & purpose of a species. Marriage is our way to sanctify the process. Not surprisingly, therefore, unconsummated marriages have been subject to annulment, even in societies that explicitly outlaw every form of divorce.

Marriage has never been simply a way to sanctify friendship. Nor has anyone ever suggested that friends of the same sex marry, to prove their ties of a lifetime. And yet what else do people of the same sex have to even suggest that they should marry, today? Only an act that most other people find offensive--one or another of muscular acts intended to simulate feelings that may mimic sexual feelings ("sexual" relating not to the feelings, but to the division of the species into sexes, for procreation and continuity).

Again, is this whole agitation--and this Court decision--not totally in the theater of the absurd?!!

As for the demand for "equal rights?" Where is there any right for anyone to force society to jump down the rabbit hole with Alice? But then my metaphor fails, when put in juxta-position with my first paragraph.

William Flax

[Jeff Head]

I am sick of abject Judicial activism.

I am sick of liberals extending natural rights, given from God and enumerated in the Constitution, to behavior and ideology to advance their own causes and inclinations...and in an effort to overthrow the constitution to which they swore an oath to faithfully uphold and defend.

The American people, to avoid the hell of chaos and downfall and implosion such trends will inevitably lead to, simply must throw off the political class that has encumbered us and elect American statemen to office who revere and will hold inviolate the fundmanetal moral values upon which this nation and its constitution was founded.

And those are Christian principles and have defined the very reason why America has been so tolerant of so many who have come to these shores. but when those here want that tolerance to extend to the destruction of what has kept the peace, made us free, defined our prosperity and strength as a nation, that we cannot, nay we MUST not tolerate, but fight with every resource at our disposal.

America at the Crossroads of History
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm

[Lmo56]

We all knew that the real showdown was going to be at SCOTUS - with an intermediate stop at the 9th Ciruit en banc before heading to DC.

A 2-1 in the Minor League split is nothing to worry about ...

I think that pro-gay marriage advocates in California erred in hitching their wagon to the courts on this one. They would have done better [for their cause] to try to repeal Prop 8 rather than forcing a SCOTUS showdown ...

The current makeup of SCOTUS is 6-3 [Catholic to Jewish]. Even Sotomayor is Catholic - and MANY HISPANIC Catholics consider the gay lifestyle to be a sin. So, she might end up with the conservatives on this one. Also, depending on orthodoxy, a few of the Jewish justices might also concur ...

The net effect of a SCOTUS decision may be that they rule that the Founders would NEVER have allowed gay marriage [what they considered to be a human abomination to be a "right"]. If they do so - then NO repeal of Prop 8 in Califoornia would be possible, since gay marriage would have already been ruled unconstitutional ...

[VanDeKoik]

If two guys can get married through this, then ALL “marriages” are legal!

INSANE!

[Bender2]

Re: ...A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

Could there have been... any other decision by these... Bozos?

Whoa, Bender! Don't ya know... you are giving us a bad name calling them 9th Circuit Jerks clowns?

Yeah, Bo-- We smokers... need to stick together!

If red Xs above go to http://uglicoyote.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/clown-car.png OR http://markarayner.com/images/bozo.jpg

That's a fact, pilgrim... that's a good fact!

SON-OF-A-BITCH? Once again, I pick the wrong day... to quit smoking!

Yeah, Steve-o--- But you are still drinking... ain't ya?

Yep and still sniffing... glue, Kermie!

Okay, okay-- Say good night... Gracie--

Okay, Bendy, what ever you want. "Good night... Gracie!"

Now, Bend, that was a long way for... a really cheap joke--

[Sarah Barracuda]

We all knew this would happen..this court, like everything else run in this screwed up state, is run by far left whack jobs. Apparently my vote in 2008 meant NOTHING. We voted to have marriage between one man and one woman and what happens, the leftist fruitcakes get all upset and overturn the decision. If my entire family didn’t live in this state I would have left a long time ago. Ronald Reagan wouldn’t even recognize it anymore if he were still alive.

[ScottinVA]

It will soon be ruled illegal for church pastors to speak out against this type of abomination.

[fwdude]

One good effect of this ruling - and this is just my opinion - is that this is going to have an energizing effect among those who feel that their rights to vote on this issue have been spat upon by unelected elites. I can see an even larger margin of victory in NC and MN where the people will soon be voting on their own marriage amendments. And I can see WA state’s legislation and ME’s homo-”marriage” referendum going down in flames by voters disgusted by this usurpation of power.

[MaxMax]

So is immediate family members marrying unconstitutional also?
Absurd you say CA? Mothers/Daughters, Fathers/sons, brothers/brothers, sisters/sisters?

Whats wrong CA, you perverts want equal rights for all dontcha?