Posted on 08/16/2010 3:56:26 PM PDT by SmithL
Federal appeals court blocks same-sex weddings
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Wow, the ninth circuit did something right for a change!!!
....sigh - here we go. The circus is going to drag on....
hmm...9th circus. This has to be a mistake.
Court halts Calif gay marriages pending appeal
Same-sex weddings in California are on hold indefinitely after a federal appeals court blocked the unions Monday while it considers the constitutionality of the state's gay marriage ban.
The decision, issued by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, trumps a lower court judge's order that would have allowed county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Wednesday.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker decided last week to allow gay marriages to go forward after ruling that the ban, known as Proposition 8, violated equal protection and due process rights of gays and lesbians guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/08/16/national/a120233D02.DTL
It cold have been the luck of the draw,, typically thye do a random draw and have a small panelof judges review appeal and then either stay or bow out or whatever,, it is then kicked up a notch and appeal can be made for a full hearing by all judges and not accept the ruling of a small group typically of 3 judges.. sometimes ya get 2 libs v. one conservative,, other times.. they prolong the agony.. and then they all get overruled by the big dogs in DC.
Huh?
Read the appeal that went to the 9th Circuit and you’ll see what this judge did can not be allowed to stand, period. That has nothing to do with gay marriage, it is what this judge did in deciding this case. He has given the 9th and the USSC nothing but reasons to over-rule him.
Surprising.
Well, this guy was seizing a building and a woman wanted to take her baby out (who was there for some reason), and she wanted to take him with his buggy, and bottle, and diaper bag, and all that, and HE WOULDN'T LET HER LEAVE.
Now it's not too unusual for IRS to stop people leaving a site and inspecting them for contraband, but as Walter learned when he got fired on the next workday, IRS has standards, and one thing they will not tolerate is an agent who kidnaps a baby!
So just because there seem to be folks out there like the 9th Circus who have no standards, they actually do have some sort of bottom rung sort of thing that they won't go beyond ~ and outlawing hetereosexual marriage and replacing it with this district judge's wet dreams might well be the thing.
There's no doubt in my mind a majority of the 9th Circuit judges want to see homosexual marriage ~ they do, after all, know what they like ~ but the judge's decision was so layered over with truly bizarre notions they've gotta' end up unanimous that "this ain't it"!
VICTORY! The sodomites are going to be whining like hell about this. Sorry Judge Walker but you won’t be able to ‘marry’ your homosexual lover this Wednesday after all, lol.
LA Times:
August 16, 2010 | 3:58 pm
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday agreed to keep same-sex marriages on hold until at least December.
In a brief order, a three-judge panel agreed to an expedited review of U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s Aug. 4 ruling that overturned Proposition 8 as a violation of the federal Constitution.
The panel agreed to hold a hearing on the case during the week of Dec. 6 and ordered both sides to present arguments on whether the campaign for Proposition 8 has legal authority to appeal Walker’s order.
Walker had declared Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, saying it violates gay men’s and lesbians’ rights to equal protection and due process.
I read the judge ruling and the appeal.
There is no historical evidence that marriage is one man one woman?
There is no debate the gender of parents makes no difference to raising a child?
Anti-Prop 8 supporters all testified that allowing gay marriage will have a dramatic affect on all marriages and yet the judge says there is no evidence that gay marriage changes anything.
Calling everyone who voted for Prop-8 bigots.
His decision was so poorly written, in direction contradiction to evidence presented at trial and so far against every single bit of precedence from the 9th and USSC there is no way it will not be overturned.
Wrights decision was a political statement and for that he should be removed from the bench.
Walker I mean.....not Wright
I figured that they would have to reach this conclusion if only because the same conclusion had been reached right after the election. (The only difference was that one didn’t invalidate current “marriages” until the outcome of the case was known. Not a problem with this ruling.)
Good news!
I wasn’t endorsing Gay Marriage.
My comment was on the sad state that we’ve come to in this country: where a judge would so obnoxiously overstep his authority.
Though this Stay is good, there is no guarentee that our courts at any level will do the right thing. :(
I find it obnoxious and offensive that we’ve come to this point in this country: where our freedoms hinge on the opinion of our courts. :(:(:(
>>>>Sorry Judge Walker but you won’t be able to ‘marry’ your homosexual lover this Wednesday after all, lol.
However, if they really wanted, they could come to Iowa, visit the state fair this week for all kinds of meat, deep fried and on a stick, and get hitched too.
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