Posted on 11/19/2008 6:12:15 PM PST by XHogPilot
SAN FRANCISCO – California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules.
The California Supreme Court accepted three lawsuits seeking to nullify Proposition 8, a voter-approved constitutional amendment that overruled the court's decision in May that legalized gay marriage.
All three cases claim the measure abridges the civil rights of a vulnerable minority group. They argue that voters alone did not have the authority to enact such a significant constitutional change.
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California Conservatives, head for Texas.
RE The California Constitution declared unconstitutional by the California Supreme Court?
Not the first time, it always amazes me, “A nation of judges, not of laws”
They haven’t written their opinion just yet, lets see what they do.
I am not holding my breath.
The voter be damned.
So a state court is more powerful than the state Constitution. This is akin to the King of Hearts trumping the Ace of Spades.
...if the queer lobby wins this, the people of California should recall the judges
Waht say you? Rule of man vs. rule of law.
No. A constitutional amendmenmet should outlaw judges. D___ them all.
"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
We’ll have to see exactly how this goes. Sometimes courts take cases because they want to set precedent and stop people from filing suit after suit.
Neither the state of Colorado, through any of its branches or departments, nor any of its agencies, political subdivisions, municipalities or school districts, shall enact, adopt or enforce any statute, regulation, ordinance or policy whereby homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation, conduct, practices or relationships shall constitute or otherwise be the basis of, or entitle any person or class of persons to have or claim any minority status, quota preferences, protected status or claim of discrimination. This Section of the Constitution shall be in all respects self-executing.
The rule of law is not the interest of the courts, but social engineering!
If they declare an Amendment as "unconstitutional," then say goodbye to the Bill of Rights, because that will be next!
Let's have a little clarity here. Gays and lesbians are NOT being prohibited from marrying - persons of the opposte sex. What they are being prohibited from doing is redefining marriage.
Actually, a good number of them don't even care about marriage of any kind. They just want to impose their perverted agenda on society beginning with public school children as early as kindergarten.
If the California Supreme Court judges decide to override the peoples' will by imposing this unnatural redefinition of marriage on the people of California, then the people should vote these justices out of office A.S.A.P. - and then continue to fight.
If the California Supreme Court judges decide to override the peoples' will by imposing this unnatural redefinition of marriage on the people of California, then the people should vote these justices out of office A.S.A.P. - and then continue to fight.
You are right on point. The California Supremes have no right to change the Constitution once amended.
The culture war went our way for once. Now it’s time to stay vigilant. Marriage is an institution that facilitates many things—traditional sexual mores being primary among those things. If some one has already abandoned those mores, as gays, by definition, have, then why embrace an institution that was developed by heterosexuals for heterosexuals? Traditional marriage (and expecially the fidelity and monogamy aspects) has never been consistent with gay values. Are we to believe that people who engage in sodomy (sorry, but that is the legally correct term for gay sex) are afraid of committing adultery?
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