For opponents of gay marriage. The significance of today's ruling by the California Federal Appeals Court that Prop 8 was unconstitutional is not only that it is what supporters of gay marriage like me hoped for, but more importantly that it was decided by a judge appointed by Ronald Reagan and argued jointly on behalf of the plaintiffs by noted conservative and liberal attorneys. This puts a lie to Family Research Council president Tony Perkins who said after the ruling that "far Left" was "using liberal courts to obtain a political goal they cannot obtain at the ballot box." What liberal court would that be?
This case will likely make its way to the Supreme Court, and everybody knows the current Court leans far right, but it is difficult to imagine the swing votes on this court siding with social conservatives. Getting the constitutionality of gay marriage into the federal courts is the best thing that could have happened. It is very much reminiscent of past courts striking down discriminatory laws in the civil rights era.
Religious communities will continue to be able to choose to not marry gays and lesbians, which is their wrong choice but protected right. But eventually they will no longer be able to legislate their view of morality on the rest of us. I am very much looking forward to the day when I can officially officiate at gay weddings.
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Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! A gay judge knocks down something in which he himself has an interest.
Walker was appointed by George H.W. Bush, not Reagan. 41 was always a squish. Get your little facts straight (no pun intended).
And why, pray tell, should YOUR version of morality be legislated? It is just as biased on irrational, incommunicable aspects of your thought as anyone else's morality.
And, just because you call hitching two steers together, "marriage," doesn't make it so. You can call a tail a leg, but it is still a tail.
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