ABA Prepares to Add Gay Marriage Views

Associated Press | Feb 6, 2004 | Gina Holland

[PhiKapMom]

Will add the link as soon as this AP story hits the newspapers. This came in AOL Update News off the AP wire. My bold and underline!

[PhiKapMom]

Now the ABA wants to get involved and tell Congress not to act. The people that should stay out of this are lawyers! They are the ones that supported the gays in going to the MA Supreme Court and now they want us all to sit back and do nothing! Let the States handle it -- yeah right!

[prairiebreeze]

Along with gay weddings will come gay divorces. Of course the ABA wants gay marriage!! John Edwards is probably foaming at the mouth.

Prairie

[prairiebreeze]

Also gay custody suits.

Prairie

[raybbr]

You know the ABA will get involved and finally approve the idea. Just think of all the gay divorces they can sponge money out of. Give them time and they will see this.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

The Federal Government can't stay out of this. It will have affects on other states as well as Federal tax filings.

[mabelkitty]

The John Edwards Constituency is trying to dance on the head of a pin.

[PhiKapMom]

Thought of Edwards when I was posting this. You are right -- more money to be made from divorces and custody fights. What a bunch of lowlifes.

[NativeSon]

Oh, now I get it, at first I read: ABBA Prepares to Add Gay Marriage Views.

I thought, who cares?

[Cboldt]

You may want to get on the Fedearlist Society e-mail that objectively describes and reports the ABA happenings at the end of each day's session.

[Cboldt]

Re: Federalis Society, Here is a link to a recent issue of "ABA Watch"

http://www.fed-soc.org/Publications/ABAwatch/feb04.pdf <-- Link (about 131 kB)

[steplock]

The A.B.A is wringing its hands in GLEE!

Oh what a bountiful motherload of lawsuits this can bring.

lawyers - politicians - judges only 'do' for lawyers - politicians - judges

The people be damned....

[TYVets]

"along with issues like judges' retirement benefits " Why is the ABA so interested?

What do you do with lousy lawyers?

Make them judges.

[Mo1]

Oh here's a crazy question .. what about how We The People feel about this?

[Congressman Billybob]

I am not at all surprised by what the ABA is doing (or urging the federal government not to do anything). The persistent liftist and anti-constitutional bent of the ABA is what caused me to quit my membership in that organization twenty years ago. And I add that from correspondence and posts, I know that many other honest lawyers (yes, Virginia, there ARE some honest lawyers) here on FreeRepublic to do the same thing for the same reason.

There is, today, only one real difference between the ABA and the Teamsters Union. The ABA drives briefcases rather than trucks. But otherwise, it is the same, corrupt, self-interested special interest seeking to feather the nest of its remaining adherents, regardless of its effects on American society.

Did I miss anything?

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread). Don't delay. Do it now.

[madprof98]

. . . the ABA is saying ```let a thousand flowers bloom.'''

Of course, when abortion is the issue, these same people demand that every state eliminate any law or policy which prevents a single baby from being killed as quickly as possible. The problem may not be the judges; the problem may be the lawyers--the pool from which the judges are chosen.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Luis Gonzalez]

PhiKap, I don't like the idea of turning over the right to define marriage to the Federal government. There is ample case law which exempts marriage from the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution.

Let the States decide.

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." -- Ronald Wilson Reagan

[MeekOneGOP]

I'll keep my input here civil !

[VOA]

ABA Prepares to Add Gay Marriage Views

"When they tell you it's not about the money...rest assured it's about the money."