U.S. Judge Rejects Nebraska Gay-Marriage Ban

AP ^ | 5/12/05 | Kevin O'Hanlon

[mmercier]

>> A judge was able to overturn a state constitutional amendment?

You should come to Massachusetts, but here they prevent them from ever appearing on the ballot beforehand...

"Law" is whatever the "judge" says in contemporary America...

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." - Huxley

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

No, no no. It's in the Constitution. You just need to look under the emanation, right next to the penumbra over there...

[Cboldt]

Seems like the good people of Nebraska need to get on the band wagon to stop the filibuster and start ringing the phones off the off of their Democratic Senator.

I'd like to see the good people of all of the USA climb on the backs of their Reps and Senators and get some of these judges impeached. They (Congress-critters) have the unqualified constitutional power of impeachment. Sure, there will be arguments about whether the judges have violated "good conduct." But it doesn't make sense to give Congress a limited impeachment power where "good conduct" means "not breaking the law" - it can already cause judges to be arrested for breaking the law ;-)

[TalBlack]

"......these tyrants think that they can. We must stop them!"

If they are not stopped they WILL, one day, go to far. Then, what happens will be out of anyones control. Last election the SCOFLA went too far but was struck down.

[Always Right]

This is why we need a US Constitutional Amendment. A sad state of affairs.

[BlurBlog]

I read about this coming months ago. A federal judge would overturn Nebraska's State Ammendment.

Looks like this is the one that will go to the U.S. Supreme Court. Do you wonder what they will do? Not me. Kill the Fillibuster, NOW!

[mlc9852]

You can associate with whomever you wish - you just can't marry them. You can't marry your parent or sibling or first cousin or your dog. But it doesn't matter. Judges rule America.

[RoseofTexas]

"We are getting our EIGHT LONG YEARS OF CLINTON right back at us, alright! On the installment plan!"


The scriptures state..."If a Nation elects a wicked leader(clinton) it reap much wicked fruit!" Yep, God did warn us...:(
But God goes on farther and says, "A Nation that elects a righteous leader(Bush) reaps much good fruit!" I believe the latter will bare fruit, only to have the BEAST of NY get credit for it in the long run if she is elected prez!! :(

[weegee]

BUMP

[Search4Truth]

If the traditional American marriage of man and woman needs the protection of the US government, then it is already dead. Killed by feminism and every person who embraced it. We are now only protecting the memory of what was.

The homosexuals are never far behind the feminists in their assault on everything American. Neither are their communist attack dogs the ACLU. These vultures always work together to the destruction of all that is godly. We are seeing the very same thing happening in the Christian churches now.

This is all the result of decades of compromising with evil. All that is left now is tradition and the law.

[Centurion2000]

A federal judge Thursday struck down Nebraska's ban on gay marriage, saying the measure interferes not only with the rights of gay couples but also with those of foster parents, adopted children and people in a host of other living arrangements

Not f^&king possible. I hate judges now ... these idiots are destroying our country and wiping out the respect for the law that used to be so prevalent in the United States.

[GLDNGUN]

A judge was able to overturn a state constitutional ammendment?

How on Earth is that even possible?

I don't know. It boggles the mind. Since the idea of "balance of powers" is now just a theory or ideal, and the judicial branch is most powerful, why do we have the people vote on anything or a legislature? I guess we should just have judges look at proposed laws and make rulings, up or down. End of discussion.

[inquest]

Confirmed by the Senate on September 11, 1997

And the Senate was controlled by...?

[Luna]

I guess it really doesn't matter what the voters want. They're just stupid, anyway, right?. Don't know what's good for them. Let the little tyrants in black robes sitting on a bench tell the masses what laws they should or should not have.

Impeach these judges that legislate from their high and mighty benches. I'm sick of them.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

and creates a significant barrier to the plaintiffs' right to petition or to participate in the political process."

What about our right to participate? We haven't been able to participate unless we get these amendments because the courts are deciding these issues. So that's where we stand. Gays have more rights than everyone else.

I hate these activist judges.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

expressive and intimate associational rights

Even if they were "rights," why does that obligate me to provide insurance for them -- if I were a resident of Nebraska. I am resenting these activist judges BIG TIME!

[Dante3]

Judges in this country are trying to take on the powers of dictators and disregard laws and the Constitution at their whim.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

What gets me too is the perversity-diversity crew always says "you don't need an amendment because the law already bans it..." So if the AMENDMENT is unconstitutional, the judge would also find the laws unconstituitonal. They want to trap us. We can't win.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Yep. Apparently, you CAN ban gay marriage - but it must have no real teeth. That's how this liberal federal judge read it in striking down Nebraska's same sex marriage state constitutional ban.

So we worry about their right to use the legislative process while we ban our use of same. All roads lead the same direction -- gay marriage or its equivalent. No choice.