Marriage foes ask Supreme Court to halt California marriages

There's no indication that this will work, but it just proves, yet again, that marriage opponents will not give an inch, even when they've lost. God forbid marriages started early (according to them; legal experts disagree).

This further shows what a fight we'll have on our hands for the other 37 states, where they are much stronger than CA. They won't budge, and their right wing legal groups will sue just for the sake of suing.

http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-petitioned-re … 09450.html
By BearinFW | 06/30/2013 01:15 AM | 5 comments
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  • My spouse and I traveled to PR China often and therefore made a number of friends there. From the end of the Clinton years through Bush/Cheney and now into Obama they have asked why in the US certain decisions were made when it was obvious the choice was wrong. I simply said, “Figure out where the biggest profit is to be made quickly, not necessarily in the long term, and that is how decisions are made.” Newsrooms cost money. They don’t make money. It is cheaper to rent a news article from a freelancing source than create one- probably with an enlightened perspective.

    Even they, part of a repressed population, think it is crazy.
    MachineToole 07/01/2013 05:26 PM
  • Investigative journalism has all but gone the way of the dodo bird for a number of reasons, but suffice to say that the main two are that newspapers no longer have the cajones to do it, and/or in many cases the resources. In the past 4-5 years, newspaper staffs have been cut back dramatically, and with reduced staffs, who has the time or manpower to do real investigative work? Nixon would likely have gotten away with Watergate if the situation then were like it is now.
    BearinFW 06/30/2013 05:16 PM
  • Have you investigated just how many Liberty University & Regent University alums are currently working on capitol hill?

    “Conservatives often say that gay marriage cheapens their marriage. Well, I think a diploma from Liberty cheapens my degree from a real school,” says Bill Maher ... Liberty University was founded by Reverend Jerry Falwell and that the university’s science department includes creation studies. Maher joked, “This is a school you flunk out of when you get the answers right.”
    MachineToole 06/30/2013 12:34 PM
  • Not at all. Conservative legal groups like the Liberty Counsel and their ilk are a plague on the legal process. They don't have the sense to know when to fight and when not to.

    i know they will throw up any barrier they can find or make up. But this one is ridiculous. Even if they were right, what have they achieved? They're only delaying implementation of the decision by 3 weeks. i guarantee that the Supreme Court is not going to reconsider the Prop. 8 ruling.
    BearinFW 06/30/2013 10:58 AM
  • BTW, the right-wing legal groups, such as Liberty Counsel, are relatively new to the game. Liberal groups, such as the ACLU, have already been at it for 40-50 years.

    Recall that the right was unhappy that they didn't have the equivalent of the civil rights lawyers on the left, so they started their own law school at Liberty University (Falwell U.) in Virginia. Anyway, this has only been going on for 10 years or less, so they are kind of now where the ACLU and left wing groups were in the late 60s, early 70s. I.e., not very sophisticated and not very experienced. The left-leaning law groups are now pretty astute in what they challenge. Not so for the right-wing groups, which will throw up a meaningless lawsuit like this. Even if they win, what have they done? Just something hateful and pointless to delay marriages resuming for about three weeks. Gimme a break.
    BearinFW 06/30/2013 04:33 AM