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A federal judge struck down Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage on Friday, ruling it unconstitutional.
It wasn't clear whether U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb's 88-page ruling cleared the way for same-sex marriages to begin immediately.
But the ruling makes Wisconsin the 27th state where same-sex couples can marry under law or where a judge has ruled they ought to be allowed to wed.
Congratulations, Wisconsin. When it's legal nationwide by June 2015/June 2016, it will be a beautiful and wonderful day for this country! It's only a matter of time!
A federal judge struck down Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage on Friday, ruling it unconstitutional.
It wasn't clear whether U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb's 88-page ruling cleared the way for same-sex marriages to begin immediately.
But the ruling makes Wisconsin the 27th state where same-sex couples can marry under law or where a judge has ruled they ought to be allowed to wed.
Congratulations, Wisconsin. When it's legal nationwide by June 2015/June 2016, it will be a beautiful and wonderful day for this country! It's only a matter of time!
States are falling like dominoes. The days of the religious fanatics and the knuckle-draggers are coming to an end.
Gov. Scott Walker backed away from his previous support for the state ban on gay marriage passed in 2006, saying he didn’t know if it violated the U.S. Constitution, would still be approved by voters today or would amount to a big change for the state’s values and economy if overturned.
Prudent (though obvious) move by Walker. He understands that the GOP is reaping what it has sown, and the fact that it used to aggressively mine votes by stoking the "OMG, the gays are going to destroy everything!" sentiment is now coming back to haunt them in most states.
For those keeping score at home, since last summer's Windsor decision by the United States Supreme Court, 15 federal courts have addressed the issue of same-sex marriage. Every last one of them has struck down the ban or restriction in question.
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz Cruz spoke at an anti-gay marriage rally on Thursday hosted by Steven Hotze, a controversial doctor who has told women that birth control would make them unappealing to men and has warned that equality for gays would be a stepping stone to child molestation.
Three years later, after overturning an anti-discrimination ordinance in Houston, Hotze organized a group of eight candidates he considered allies in the fight against homosexuality. He called them "the Straight Slate." His preferred mayoral candidate said that the best way to fight AIDS was to "shoot the queers." Hotze told a local newspaper reporter that he cased out restaurants before making reservations to make sure they didn't have any gay employees and became such a divisive figure in local politics that for a brief period the Harris County Republican Party cleaved in two.
Either Ted Cruz didn't get the message Scott Walker is getting, or Ted Cruz is just cynically advancing his own parochial political fortunes at the expense of the Republican Party nationwide. Gee, I wonder which it would possibly be?
A full 50 percent say gay marriage is protected by the Constitution’s Equal Protection clause, an argument repeated by judge after judge in a string of federal rulings against state bans since a pivotal Supreme Court decision last summer.
Last edited by Unsettomati; 06-06-2014 at 03:59 PM..
I don't know why we dont just get this before the Supreme Court and get it over with.
The Supreme Court usually doesn’t take cases in which there’s no disagreement at lower-court levels. SCOTUS would get involved if a lower court went against the the 27 state decisions in favor of same sex marriage.
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