California Supreme Court to Rule Tomorrow on Gay Marriage »
Posted By david_nwpa 1 year, 5 months ago in StyleThe California Supreme Court announced on Wednesday it will issue its ruling tomorrow on whether same-sex couples can marry in the state. The judgment is expected at 10:00 am PT, and LGBT groups throughout the state are making plans to be in San Francisco for the decision.
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
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The whole LGBT community will be waiting patiently tomorrow to discover whether the people have been granted the same rights as others, or if LGBT Californians are also second-class citizens. If marriage equality is mandated by the court, then the governor should have no choice but to amend California law and ratify gay marriage.
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 5 months ago
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Here's your answer:
http://news.propeller.com/story/2008/05/15/cali...
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hamy1 year, 5 months ago
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IanFraigun1 year, 5 months ago
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In situations of human and civil rights the will of the people is often wrong.
If we would always let that will expressed through the ballot box rule then we would still have slavery. Even with that gone we would still have legal segregation and discrimination. All are aginst our desire that ALL people should have equal rights.
There are many other things the 'people' have voted for that are against the law and our constitution and have had to be overturned by the courts over the years.
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Will13131 year, 5 months ago
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ahhhh.. but if "the will of the people were followed" women and blacks could not vote, own property, go to school with children of a different race, marry a different race, etc..
sometimes and only sometimes the courts have to step in and make things RIGHT..
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hamy1 year, 5 months ago
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Sometimes, the will of the people is wrong. You cannot allow the majority to dictate the rights of others. Look at Loving v The State of Virginia. She herself equated her past battle to the current struggle for marriage equality.
Remember? It was illegal for a black and a white to marry too. People didn't want that but the courts had to step in and say that everyone deserves the same rights. Now we are faced with the same problem. Idiots like you think that you should be able to keep a segment of the American population down as second class and the courts are telling you that you can't.
Now why don't you join the Westboro Baptist Church in protesting at soldiers funerals. You are no better.
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amazed1 year, 5 months ago
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I have no problem with gay marriage when it is legislated. I have a huge problem when the courts start legislating ANYTHING, and that's what this is.
I don't buy the argument that we would still have slaves if it weren't for the courts -- seems to me there was a little thing called the Civil War that addressed that issue among other things. As far as the rest of the civil rights, it is true that there were some court rulings, but the civil rights movement is really what drove the courts as well as federal legislation and an amendment to the Constitution that really made it happened. Segregation is unlikely to have lasted regardless of the courts.
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IanFraigun1 year, 5 months ago
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The civil war was over the issue of maintaining the union at all costs. Lincoln used it to free the slaves mostly to gain northern anti slavery support.
It was the courts that struck down segregated schools because they were unequal, struck down poll taxes to keep the poor from voting, struck down redlining in real estate to allow free will mixing of communities, struck down laws against interratial marriage and so many other things not in compliance with our constitutional rights.
In California unlike any other state there is a constitutional right of privacy. That means the government has not right peeking into our bedroom which is why no sexual activities between consenting adults is illegal in that state. The same should hold true for those who wish to live together as a married couple since the government has no business by constitution to get involved in that decision.
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jordan111 year, 5 months ago
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I have a huge problem when the courts start legislating ANYTHING, and that's what this is.>>>>>
The courts have a responsibility to interpret LAW. And our LAWS are derived from Constitutional intent. When a law is not in accordance with that intent, the courts MUST strike down the law. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Equal rights is equal rights, period! There are no 'if's, and's or buts' about it. We are obliged to follow the Constitution, not the whims of a 'majority' that deny the rights of a minority!
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tkyrchncs1 year, 5 months ago
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Well I have a big problem with the government recognizing ANYBODY'S marriage if they use that to discriminate against anybody. What business of the government's is it if anybody is married or not? How is it right for the government to recognize your relationship but not mine? You can name no legitimate interest of the government that doesn't apply to all the citizens equally.
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
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None have been able to explain how a gay marriage in Massachusetts or California will in any way change or alter the family in Iowa. None have been able to explain how allowing gays and lesbians to marry and be accepted completely as citizens in this country will in any way damage society. Spout off biblical rhetoric all you like, but none have presented any evidence. In fact, divorce rates are not changed in Massachusetts, where marriage equality has existed for over 5 years. Hence, marriage equality is about setting people as equal regardless of the underlying bigotry some people refuse to surrender.
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Mdiar1 year, 5 months ago
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"Spout off biblical rhetoric all you like, but none have presented any evidence."
Dang, so I can't use the old "Hell-Fire" argument? Darn!
/end sarcasm
No one will ever be able to explain that. Ever. Or explain how marriage is religious when you can get married in the eyes of the law by a judge, as opposed to a priest.
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donotdoubt1 year, 5 months ago
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Romans 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
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antitrust1 year, 5 months ago
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Do you realize that you are being told how and what to think by a words that are supposedly written by "God?" How are those ideas of God any more valid then the bum off the street saying he has heard the voice of God? Oh wait, maybe if he wrote them down and sprinkled some dust on them they would be, completely ridiculous. Christianity uses fear to impose itself as a governing body but that is another topic.
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jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago
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If the California supreme court does not pass this, there will be riots in the streets of San Francisco.
There will be slap fights, hands on hips, pouting, and all of the houses in the Castro district will be painted in clashing colors in protest.
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djrevelky1 year, 5 months ago
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I see...way to go California. Since Gay marriage is being banned by POPULAR vote in almost every single state, what better way to subvert the will of the people than have the court get involved?
Personally, I don't care if states ban or legalize gay marriage as long as the PEOPLE of that STATE decide. Not the federal government, not some activist judges.
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Hobe1 year, 5 months ago
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California Supreme Court to Rule Tomorrow on HoMOsexual Marriage
Is it fair to say, there are caults in many states that allow so called men to Marry multiply wives, in some cases under age teen age girls. There have also been suggustions that teen age boys have also been abused?
HoMosexuals should and must have the same rights as all americans....
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Itachirumon1 year, 5 months ago
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"California Supreme Court to Rule Tomorrow on HoMOsexual Marriage
Is it fair to say, there are caults in many states that allow so called men to Marry multiply wives, in some cases under age teen age girls. There have also been suggustions that teen age boys have also been abused?
HoMosexuals should and must have the same rights as all americans.... "
Hobe, is it fair to say you're a waterhead retard? It's spelled homosexual or Homosexual not HoMOsexual, we've been over this Corkey. By the way, it's also called cults, not caults. You should take sixth grade English over again because you have repulsively bad syntax. I'm suprised you capitalize Homosexuals and won't even capitalize Americans...are you really that hypocritical? Just goes to show you: Cons "Love America" unless they have to prove it, then they show their true form. Get a life you unpatriotic, bigoted, nationalistic, ethnocentric donkey's rump.
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dandur61 year, 5 months ago
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Homosexuality is genetic, like blue eyes. A major study by an Illinois university of DNA from gay brothers will be released next year to show this fact once and for all.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada now for some time and hasn't changed the lives or marriages of straight people in the least.
Do onto others...
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Itachirumon1 year, 5 months ago
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Shhhh don't mention Canada in front of the neocons. The Canada-did-it argument doesn't seem to work with people who believe that each and every country is worse than America. Good to have pride but you need reality too ya know?
While we're at it, don't mention anything done by major studies or universities...them folks daunt take too kindley to that there bukake learning. Universities are el satan to them.
Don't say DNA either, DNA doesn't exist, it's the devil in bed with a goat *shifty eyes*
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