Posted on 07/03/2009 1:06:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney representing two same-sex couples who were denied a right to wed in California said on Thursday he expected the case to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to hear a case on the gay marriage issue.
"When it does get to the United States Supreme Court, we expect to win," Theodore Olson, who was solicitor general under former President George W. Bush, told reporters after the first hearing on federal lawsuit that was filed in May.
A high court ruling potentially could trump state laws prohibiting same-sex unions. Five out of 50 U.S. states have legalized gay marriage, which opponents view as a threat to what they view as the traditional family.
U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker used the preliminary hearing scheduled in the case to urge both parties to move to trial swiftly as possible.
Walker similarly predicted the closely watched proceedings in his courtroom were "only prelude to what happens later."
"I'm reasonably sure given the issues involved and the personalities in this courtroom this case is only touching down this court," Walker said. "It will have a life after this court."
The battle over gay marriage has been especially arduous in California, which has historically stood at the forefront of changing social mores.
The federal lawsuit that claims California denies gays their constitutional right to marry was filed days before the state's top court backed a ban on gay marriage. Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment that limits marriage to man-and-woman couples, was passed by voters in November.
In May 2008, California's Supreme Court struck down a state law barring same-sex marriage, leading 18,000 same-sex couples to marry. Those marriages remain valid, the same court ruled in May, even as it upheld the voter-backed ban on gay marriage.
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What did you people expect? He’s a lawyer, for God’s sake. He’s also worked in politics....they are all pigs and cretins in one way or another, Reps and Dems alike. All of them.
“What did you people expect? He’s a lawyer, for God’s sake. He’s also worked in politics....they are all pigs and cretins in one way or another, Reps and Dems alike. All of them.”
Absolutely!
I was thinking the same thing.
Wow, that guy sure turned out to be a disappointment.
He was married before Barbara and already after Barbara.
Politics make strange bedfellows...
Wonder if he has any sugar in his tank.
He met his second wife a mere 8 months after Barbara’s death. She is a lib. He lets his schlong do his thinking now too, apparently.
Perhaps, just maybe, there is a method to Olson’s absolute madness. Don’t we want the USSC to hear and strike down a threat to real marriage while there is at least a pretty good balance on the court to find in this direction rather than wait until Ø appoints some more rabid leftists? After all, the homo-activist groups were advising against this going to court from the get go (after Prop 8 was finally confirmed.) There’s a reason, I think.
What the heck "other" view is there about what constitutes a "traditional" family?
Is this idiot writer implying that gay "marriage" has now become viewed by some as "traditional" marriage???? Liberalism has fully emerged as the ultimate in deception.
While we may not agree with Olson on this issue, he did a great job in representing Bush vs. Gore. I can’t imagine Gore as POTUS. Olson’s arguments ended Gore’s attempted theft of the 2000 election.
By listening to the homophiles, you would think that they think they are exactly like a traditional family, including being able to procreate together. Just ask the idiots who want both of their names listed as "parents" on their adopted child's birth certificate.
Thank God, he didn’t end up on the Supreme Court.
I heard about this a few weeks ago. Another former conservative takes a weird trip.
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