Court blocks California same-sex weddings while appeal is considered
source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/16/BAEE1EUOIF.DTL&tsp=1A
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federal appeals court in San Francisco issued a ruling today freezing a judge's decision that overturned California's ban on same-sex marriage.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by backers of Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on gay and lesbian marriages, to stay the Aug. 4 ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker pending their appeal.
Walker had put the stay in place when he found Prop. 8 to be unconstitutional discrimination against gays and lesbians, but then lifted it last week. Had that decision stood, gay and lesbian couples could have been married starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
The case is widely expected eventually to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by backers of Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on gay and lesbian marriages, to stay the Aug. 4 ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker pending their appeal.
Walker had put the stay in place when he found Prop. 8 to be unconstitutional discrimination against gays and lesbians, but then lifted it last week. Had that decision stood, gay and lesbian couples could have been married starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
The case is widely expected eventually to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Sparky2U
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Awesome ! The openly gay judge put in his place.
- 1 year ago
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Sparky2U
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littlwarrior
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Sparky2U:
The only reason it was put in place was because the appeals court is now considering the case they may still, as judge walker suspects, refuse the case based on the grounds that the heterosexuals fighting to appeal the descision would be completly unaffected by any future outcome. Come to that no matter which way this goes hetersexuals will be completly unaffected. So then one must wonder, why do they care? Oh thats right because hatred makes them and their god happy, strange they gave their god the same name as mine cuase mine really is not all that fond of hate.
- 1 year ago
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littlwarrior
