Posted on 06/12/2006 6:27:55 PM PDT by CAWats
I think the state pols made sure this didn't go far in the courts so as to protect a bunch of state anti gun legislation from review. Queer San Fransicko might upset the state applecart if this went higher in the courts.
Would this also apply to New York City, since the State of New York allows the sale and posession of hand guns.
I would assume so; but this is NY...
Don't forget that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is located there and you know that the city will appeal it.
California has a preemption clause, which reserves the authority to regulate firearms to the state alone. Some cities have violated it in the past.
This has to be satire.
San Fran Gun Ban SHOT DOWN!!!!
San Fran Gun Ban SHOT DOWN!!!!
I think you need a new hard-d-d d-d-drive.
Was that a semi-auto posting? ;)
california does thing right for a change.
Exactly and that's why the state judge was wise (and I believe motivated) to finish it in state court rather than have the 9th screw up and ok the ban moving it to SCOTUS and a possible groundbreaking SCOTUS ruling on the individual right.
california does something right for a change.
Thanks
bttt
Damn activist judge going against the will of the people. :)
Makes sense. Queers don't produce babies...
Correct, but they try to adopt.
Then the queers -- and "catholic" Mayor -- protest when the Catholic Church tells them agencies won't assist in their adoptions. Thus, courtesy of 365gay.com [caution, gag alert]
(San Francisco, California) March 14, 2006 San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has cancelled a trip to Rome for the installation of the city's former Archbishop as a cardinal reportedly after learning the Church is considering a ban on gay adoption in San Francisco.
The San Francisco Sentinel reported Tuesday that banning gays and lesbians from adopting is "patently offensive".
He was to have attended the ceremony elevating Archbishop William Levada to cardinal and head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The Sentinel reports that Newsom changed his mind after reading that the San Francisco archdiocese was considering a change in its policies to specifically bar gays from adopting children.
Catholic Charities of San Francisco said Friday that it was considering the change following statements by Levada.
In an interview with the Boston Globe Levada pointed to a 2003 Vatican document makes clear that ''Catholic agencies should not place children for adoption in homosexual households."
He had been asked about Vatican policy after Bishops in Massachusetts sought an exemption from the state's human rights law that protects gays and lesbians.
Catholic Charities in Boston on Friday announced it would close its adoption bureau rather than allow gays to adopt. Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney is seeking an amendment to the human rights law to exempt the church. On Tuesday he said he is not opposed to gay adoption but feels the church should have the right to decide where it wants to place Catholic children.
Newsom, a lifelong Catholic, told the Sentinel that the Vatican position is "wrong-headed".
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