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At Closings, Judge Asks Same-Sex Marriage Foes, "Where's Your Evidence?"
New York Lawyer ^ | June 17, 2010 | By Dan Levine | The Recorder

Posted on 06/17/2010 11:47:45 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

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1 posted on 06/17/2010 11:47:45 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: P-Marlowe

Ted Olson is a disgrace.

The reason for marriage is protection of the procreative unit. It’s such a fundamental, self-evident fact that there is no need to provide “experts.”


2 posted on 06/17/2010 11:51:22 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Kennedy. It all is going to come down to Justice Kennedy. I'm not hopeful.

It would have been nice if Kennedy would have applied those same libertarian leanings when deciding Kelo. Of course, he didn't.

3 posted on 06/17/2010 11:51:33 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

It is a California Constitutional amendment. How can it be overturned? If it is, then the state constitution means nothing. For the only standard becomes the one the unaccountable judges say it is.


4 posted on 06/17/2010 11:54:50 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Theodore Olson: off the rails in a big way.

Is it a bad sign when the judge is writing his decision before the final arguments are done?


5 posted on 06/17/2010 11:55:27 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

If this judge rules against 8 and that the government must “treat every citizen equally” then it will be time for those of us that only pay taxes and get no service to sue for our equal rights.

When one citizen gets free food, free school, free medical, free housing, etc

and

one citizen receives nothing.

That is not the government treating equally. Why 10% from one and 50% from another? The entire progressive tax system should be ruled un-Constitutional.


6 posted on 06/17/2010 11:55:50 AM PDT by edcoil (Kingdoms have never survived. Don't let any new ones be formed.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Evidence: Rome


7 posted on 06/17/2010 11:56:07 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

The reason for *Marriage* is to establish *Order* between Men and Women* *A Covenant* * *Legal Contract* *A Commitment* based on children, fidelity and family ties.

A Man and Woman seals that covenant with *Consumation*

Gays cannot consummate nor can they re-produce with one another, nor can they provide a child with a Mother, Father and biological family connections.

Also GAYS can marry, they cannot re-define what marraige is.


8 posted on 06/17/2010 12:00:04 PM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Has the SCOTUS weighed in on similar cases? Because it seems this is where it is headed.


9 posted on 06/17/2010 12:01:49 PM PDT by Hostage
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
That's the central reason Prop 8 supporters cite as why voters have a rational basis to ban gay marriage.

The judge needs to show how he is given the authority to overrule the will of the voters over something that is a universal cultural belief (at least until the rise of post-WWII socialism).

10 posted on 06/17/2010 12:02:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Being in the position that he’s in,
and being a liberal,
he inherently “knows better” than the hoi polloi.


12 posted on 06/17/2010 12:03:54 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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13 posted on 06/17/2010 12:04:18 PM PDT by traderrob6
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At Closings, Judge Asks Same-Sex Marriage Foes, “Where’s Your Evidence?”


I have been in situations like this before. It typically happens when someone wants to cut corners. If you warn that it will result in problems, they always say something similar. And....I’ll bet my hat that some BP executive on the Deepwater Horizon rig said the same thing when warned of serious consequences when corners were being cut.


14 posted on 06/17/2010 12:05:01 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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One of the arguments made by Prop 8 proponents is that gays and lesbians have gained sufficient political power that they don't need high levels of constitutional protection. If that's the case, Walker asked Cooper, why are women still a protected class?

They aren't. Liberals called Hillary Clinton a b**** and Sarah Palin a c*** for running in 2008.

Identity politics only means something to the politically correct when you serve the Party.

15 posted on 06/17/2010 12:05:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Making law from the bench is what liberals do best.

Take your little ballot initiative and screw off. America wasn’t made for you little people. Just important Judges and politicians like us. :)


16 posted on 06/17/2010 12:05:48 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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At one point, Walker asked Cooper to recount the trial evidence showing that marriage is designed to encourage procreation.

Huh? Is this what we pay unelected judges their fat salaries for? Any HS biology student should know, 2 men can bugger each other till rapture and it won't produce a baby, so marriage between a man and woman is the only way to insure procreation. We need to cite case law for this? God help us.

17 posted on 06/17/2010 12:06:36 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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Sounds like the judge likes Boston Legal too much.


18 posted on 06/17/2010 12:09:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Rutles4Ever

The judge is a queer...who didnt know what the result was going to be months ago?


19 posted on 06/17/2010 12:10:38 PM PDT by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
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What a bunch of stupid f*ks.

two men or two women by themselves can not reproduce and create a family.. simple as that.

they can only ‘synthesize’ the experiences and then proclaim it matches or means as much as the man and woman model of a family to satisfy a few. rule of the minority or what?


20 posted on 06/17/2010 12:10:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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