Posted on 06/28/2017 8:43:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai
North Carolina’s law allowing magistrates to refuse to perform same-sex marriages survived a challenge Wednesday when an appeals court determined that three couples weren’t harmed enough to fight the state’s use of taxpayer money to apply the law.
The Richmond-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed their lawsuit, rejecting arguments by the couples that their status as North Carolina taxpayers gives them standing to sue. Because two of the couples are already married and the third is engaged, the law hasn’t hurt their ability to wed, the judges said.
“The outcome here is in no way a comment on same-sex marriage as a matter of social policy. The case before us is far more technical-whether plaintiffs, simply by virtue of their status as state taxpayers, have alleged a personal, particularized injury for the purposes of (federal court) standing,” Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote in the 3-0 ruling. …
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How did this happen?
The worm has turned?
This is going to make the Gaystapo screech and swing their purses.
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