Maryland High Court Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Ban

The Washington Post ^ | September 18, 2007 | BY ERIC RICH AND JOHN WAGNER

[icwhatudo]

Maryland's highest court upheld the state's ban on gay marriage in a ruling issued this morning, reversing a lower court decision and turning back the most formidable legal challenge to date of the controversial law.

The Court of Appeals held that the ban does not, as the American Civil Liberties Union had argued, violate the state constitution. The ruling cannot be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, the plaintiffs said when the case was argued in December.

[icwhatudo]

Huge news in a liberal state. Cannot be appealed? Hmmmm

[goldstategop]

It involved a state constitutional question. The Democrats won't dare to repeal the law. Most states though, beginning with Hawaii in 1998, have put marriage in their state constitution so judges can't decide what marriage means according to trendy social theory but only in accordance with age old principles and settled law. The Maryland Supreme Court made the right decision but marriage is still far from secure in our country.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[montag813]

Cannot be appealed? Hmmmm

Yes. Once you reach the highest appellate level in a state, that is the end of the line.

[Macrinus]

Are you citing that quote anout Mohammed because you think the current decadence makes us easy prey for his followers?

[FormerLib]

It’s funny to read the comments of the Leftists as they go apoplectic about this defeat.

They also know that the Judiciary was their only hope because the Legislature will never approve this rot.

Follow the link to the Washington Post blog and let them know how decent people are heartened by this decision.

[goldstategop]

No because I view Islam as a fanatical death cult devoid of reason. They may have wiped out ancient civilizations but they're more murderous towards themselves. Neverthless, your point is an excellent one - if we in the West fail to safeguard our virtue, we won't be for long in this world. Our greatest enemy is not the enemy outside; it is the enemy within and in the breadth of cultural and moral destruction he is wreaking, he is more to be feared than a dozen men in four planes. For the effects of his baleful legacy are far more long lasting.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Albion Wilde]

"In an opinion signed by four judges, Judge Glenn T. Harrell Jr., citing a Supreme Court holding on judicial restraint, wrote that, absent evidence of discrimination, "judicial intervention is generally unwarranted no matter how unwisely we may think a political branch has acted.""

Hoooooo-weee!!! Finally, a correctly administered decision! Let the people decide how their society should be structured, not the oligarchs!

[sitetest]

Dear goldstategop,

“The Democrats won’t dare to repeal the law.”

I’m not sure that’s true. There have been rumblings here of doing exactly that.

sitetest

[PetroniusMaximus]

Coming to a battlefield near you.

[Albion Wilde]

ping!

Good news of interest to Maryland FReepers, teachers, pastors, lawyers, journalists ...

[Wil H]

Marriage Law is ‘Stare Decisis”

If that is not the case, then Roe v Wade can certainly be challenged..

[Albion Wilde]

“The Democrats won’t dare to repeal the law.” I’m not sure that’s true. There have been rumblings here of doing exactly that.

It has been a knock-down drag-out fight, in which the Demoncrap head of the Maryland senate last year closed down the legislature at noon on the last day to get the issue on the ballot rather than allow the ballot proposal to come up for a vote in the afternoon session.

Demoncraps will do anything — anything — to destroy Christianity, the family, morality, and to pave the way for total sexual access to other people's children.

[Albion Wilde]

On behalf of 19 gay and lesbian Maryland residents, ACLU attorney Kenneth Y. Choe argued that the ban should be struck down because there is "no constitutionally sufficient justification" for denying his clients and their children protections that only marriage affords.

Hmm, let's see: they "had" the children, knowing their relationships were unable to be recognized as marriage and run the risk of never being recognized, and then they cry that they should be able to eat the stolen cookies.

This reminds me of the old Yiddish joke of the guy who kills his parents and then begs for the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.

Sadly, today many liberals would not "get" the irony of that joke.

[Albion Wilde]

Marriage Law is ‘Stare Decisis” If that is not the case, then Roe v Wade can certainly be challenged..

So far, our judiciary has only leveled stare decisis in the direction of tearing down the church in order to establish the secular State, not in the other direction of preserving the social order of the majority of Americans.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

PING!!

[bill1952]

Nope. the end of the line for appeals.

Gay rights advocates called the ruling a surprise and disappointment given that several states, including Massachusetts and New Jersey, have struck down marriage bans.

Well, those Socialist States no longer are part of America as we know it anyway.

[bill1952]

How do homosexuals have natural children anyway.

If that was before their conversion to perversion, then there are better places for those children anyway.

As far as adoption by known queers, that should be a crime itself.

[maica]

Very good news! It looks like children’s textbooks can still use the words “mother” and “father” or Mommy” and “Daddy.”

I was waiting in a doctor’s office this morning, sitting next to a grandfather with an absolutely breathtakingly beautiful little girl. They were waiting for “Mom-mom” to be ready to go home. At some point the grandfather used the word “persons” and the little girl, about 3 yrs old, said, “I’m not a person. I’m a girl. I don’t want to be a person.”

I thought “oh good, here is one future citizen who will not have gender identity “issues,’” — which kids in Montgomery County schools have to study in their so-caled “sex-ed” classes.

[pollywog]

Great NEWS!!!

[JZelle]

O’Malley will fix it.