Court denies one same-sex marriage case (USSC refuses appeal of LA Gay marriage ban!)

SCOTUS blog ^ | January 12th, 2015 9:41 am | Lyle Denniston

[icwhatudo]

The Supreme Court, returning from its winter recess, decided on Monday not to take on a same-sex marriage case that remains under review in a federal appeals court, but otherwise took no action on that constitutional controversy. The Court made no comment as it turned down a plea by same-sex couples in Louisiana to review that state’s ban, which had been upheld by a federal trial judge in New Orleans (Robicheaux v. George).

[allblues]

If you want to get nit picky you could say that Kennendy was appointed by Ted Kennedy since the Swimmer successfully blocked Robert Bork, leading to the detestable A. Kennedy.

[jsanders2001]

When to guys get married who is the “groom”? Who is the “husband”?

Probably depends on who’s in front and who’s in back..../s

[jsanders2001]

When a law is unjust and passeed against the will of the people it is their duty to ignore and disobey it

[WashingtonSource]

Bump

[supercat]

Will be interesting to see how Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore will handle it when some crackpot liberal federal judge says the people of good state of Alabama have to accept sodomite “marriage” after the people have resoundingly voted it down time and time again

A more interesting question IMHO is what would happen if a state passed a law which used the state's authority to define the effects of such "marriages" in other states such that people claiming such marriages could request, in exchange for a $50,000 fee, a document from the secretary of state documenting the fact that the other state regards them as married, but that such marriages performed in other state would impose no obligations on either the state or its citizenry beyond the issuance of such document, and such document itself would not compel anyone to do anything.

[NKP_Vet]

Interesting proposition.