This seems like a "Duh!" moment ...
Using lack of standing to dismiss the case is weasling.
Well of course they can't. The gay activist strategy is to have a married homosexual couple from Massachusetts bring that suit. Duh! You can't sue for federal benefits until you first gain state recognition, or the DOMA is irrelevant. I would say it was a waste of money but they probably got the services for free from some activist attorney.
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court today dismissed a challenge by two Orange County men to a law denying federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples, saying a couple that isn't legally married under state law has no right to contest the federal definition of marriage.
The federal appeals court should have dismissed the challenge to reality as follows:
A homosexual couple are free to engage in delusion; however, society is not required to reward or grant privelege to such activity...
No comment.
Arthur smelts Christophers hammer????
"The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reached the result urged by gay-rights groups, which opposed the federal suit because they are trying to overturn California's marriage law in state court."
When the nutty 9th circuit makes an actual sane ruling, you can bet their is something amiss in how they got there.
This is such a game of ping-pong between the courts. We need a Federal Marriage Protection Act to settle the matter.
Incredible! *LOGIC* out of the 9th Circus. Makes perfect sense, really.
is there an error? It says Ninth Circuit ?
LOL! Whether statutory (federal) law OR civil (State) law, no governmental entity has the authority (juristiction) to define marriage as ANYTHING other than a marriage between a man and a woman.
All political entities and subdivisions MUST remain true to natural law-
This law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other-It is binding over all the globe in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this: and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.
From Blackstone's Commentaries Book I Part I Section II
My goodness! This from the Ninth Circuit? They must be keeping an eye on the Supremes. No judge likes to be overruled. Roberts and Alito have already made a difference.