Federal judge strikes down Okla. same-sex marriage ban

FoxNews.com ^ | January 14, 2014

[optiguy]

Oklahoma's gay marriage ban violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Terrence Kern handed down the ruling in a lawsuit filed by two same-sex couples. Kern immediately stayed his ruling pending appeals, meaning gay marriages won't happen in Oklahoma right away. The gay couples had sued for the right to marry and to have a marriage from another jurisdiction recognized in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma ruling comes about a month after a federal judge in Utah overturned that state's ban on same-sex marriage. Hundreds of couples got married there before the U.S. Supreme Court intervened, putting a halt to the weddings until the courts sort out the matter. Kern, whom Fox 25 reports is a Clinton, Okla. native, cited that case in issuing the stay of his own ruling. The constitutional amendment approved by Oklahoma voters says marriage in the state consists only of the union of one man and one woman. Kerns said the measure violates the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause by precluding same-sex couples from receiving an Oklahoma marriage license.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

And I hope all the Glenn Beck acolytes are listening to him lately. I guarantee he’ll come out in support of FudgePacker and CarpetMuncher “marriage.” He’s going on and on lately to emphasize how tolerant he is of their affliction and even calling people who oppose them “Heterofascists.”

He’s a fraud and you’ll all see it when he starts wobbling on homomarriage.

Hank

[BillyBoy]

>> It seems like liberals take a perverted interest in imposing their wicket self-destructive ways upon those of us who like them least. Seriously Utah and Oklahoma? Theses people are incapable of leaving other people alone. If two dikes want to be recognized as somehow man and wife they should do it in a different state among a different people who know nothing of marriage. Perhaps New York for example. They have no business telling Oklahoman or Utans what to believe about an institution as old as man. <<

Worked the same way in the 1850s when Stephen Douglas decided to the solution to the slavery issue was just to let each state decide for themselves. That was all fine and dandy until a slave owner from a state where slavery was a "right" brought his slaves into a free state and demanded they recognize his "right", suing and getting a judge to force his viewpoint on the residents.