Posted on 03/06/2009 11:55:48 AM PST by bimboeruption
The CSC will uphold Prop 8, but will also rule that the gay marriage which took place after the CSC made its now overruled decision, but before Prop 8’s adoption, are still valid.
Question,
Regardless of how this is viewed, will it be challenged to any other court? Like say U.S. Supremes?
Or is it simply a calif issue?
Title rewrite: “Calif. high court weighs marriage definition change”
But Associate Justices Joyce Kennard, Marvin Baxter and Ming Chin noted that voters successfully overturned a 1972 Supreme Court ruling that struck down the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment. When the measure was challenged, the court upheld it as a properly enacted amendment.
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I want these justices to keep remembering the death penalty battles and removing Justice Bird for thwarting the will of the people.
I’m reassured to hear they are looking at this properly. The people voted and that should stand. If they voted to have brownies delivered to their doors everyday, then so be it.
Regardless of how this is viewed, will it be challenged to any other court? Like say U.S. Supremes? Or is it simply a calif issue?
Joe, I think the losing side will carry it forward.
The court has the right to strike down a law as unconstitutional, I don’t deny that; but it is unethical to do so unless the constitution is in clear, black-and-white opposition to the law WHEN STRICTLY INTERPRETED.
There’s nothing in the constitution about gay marriage. The voters made their wills known; they should be respected.
Although, if I could have my way, I’d simply get the government out of people’s personal affairs and keep it from meddling in the institution of marriage altogether. Whether two people of the same sex can be wed in holy matrimony should be the private decision of a church or family, not a legislator’s or a judge’s. If the government just stopped meddling where it doesn’t belong, we wouldn’t have to waste time with this stuff.
LOL! But the dwarf-kings were more intelligent and moral than these intellectual dwarves.
Lest we forget, we came a hair's breadth away from that happening through legislative action - twice! Only Arnold's veto pen stopped it. (I can't say anything else nice about that brain tumor.)
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