What is new on the Gay Marriage front?

[hotatlboi]

9th circuits ruling should bring it to 35 states pretty soon.

SCOTUS continues to have no reason to take a case until we lose at the appellate level.

 

[smokeshadow]

And. . .the occupants of the Loony Bin just keep getting loonier and loonier

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_yo...es-wacky-hetero-only-civil-unions-scheme.html

 

[scream4ever]

The mandate for the 9th Circuit has already been released, and marriages will begin tomorrow in Culver County (Las Vegas):

https://www.scribd.com/doc/242231248/14-35420-182-Mandate

Well that was fast.

 

[frankfrank]

I don't understand how a nine-justice Supreme Court, which is supposed to be absolutely impartial and nonpartisan, usually votes 5-4 on cases...AND which Justices will vote which way can almost always be predicted ahead of time.

Shouldn't there be a lot of 9-0 or 8-1 decisions?

 

[rareboy]

The mandate for the 9th Circuit has already been released, and marriages will begin tomorrow in Culver County (Las Vegas):

https://www.scribd.com/doc/242231248/14-35420-182-Mandate

Well that was fast.

Excellent. Hopefully the other hold-out states in the 9th circuit will follow suit as quickly as possible..

 

[rareboy]

http://www.pewforum.org/2014/10/07/same-sex-marriage-state-by-state/

What a difference in the last decade.

 

[Ninja108]

Excellent. Hopefully the other hold-out states in the 9th circuit will follow suit as quickly as possible..

It's as good as done in those states. The judges are going to have no choice but to follow the 9th circuit on this one.

 

[Ninja108]

I don't understand how a nine-justice Supreme Court, which is supposed to be absolutely impartial and nonpartisan, usually votes 5-4 on cases...AND which Justices will vote which way can almost always be predicted ahead of time.

Shouldn't there be a lot of 9-0 or 8-1 decisions?

Sad to say but the Republicans made it their mission to get partisan hacks like Scalia and Thomas on the courts and they've succeeded.

 

[Alnitak]

Conservative states balk at same-sex marriage decisions

Conservative officials in some of the six states where Supreme Court action this week likely cleared the way for same-sex weddings say they won’t issue marriage licenses to gay couples until their hands are forced.

Now, gay rights advocates are preparing to do just that.

The above map is already out of date. Nevada and Idaho were included last night.

 

[Alnitak]

Gay marriages start in South Carolina despite ban

A court in Charleston, S.C., has issued a marriage license to a gay couple despite a state ban, according to The Associated Press.
Additional information will be posted here as it becomes available.

 

[T-Rexx]

Agreed that a stay would make NO SENSE here. If they were waiting on the 6th, they would've kept the other stays until then. Idaho, Alaska and Montana have to decide if that kind of grandstanding will get them anywhere.

Justice Kennedy has just issued a stay of the 9th circuit ruling, to prevent gay marriages from happening in Idaho.

http://www.towleroad.com/2014/10/sc...-ruling-for-idaho-blocking-gay-marriages.html

It's temporary. We'll see what happens.

 

[Alnitak]

If the Supreme Court is looking for historically low levels of respect, the justices are going about it the right way.

 

[hotatlboi]

I don't understand how a nine-justice Supreme Court, which is supposed to be absolutely impartial and nonpartisan, usually votes 5-4 on cases...AND which Justices will vote which way can almost always be predicted ahead of time.

Shouldn't there be a lot of 9-0 or 8-1 decisions?

There are actually in the noncontroversial cases. The majority of the cases they hear never get any press coverage.

 

[hotatlboi]

Is anyone really surprised by this?

http://americablog.com/2014/10/several-gop-governors-vow-ignore-supreme-court-gay-marriage.html

We had a a real lull for a while where it seemed like people were over this issue, but I've noticed a serious uptick in fundie hysteria anywhere this is being discussed the last few days.

It's like their last mad gasp before finally surrendering to the inevitable.

 

[Alnitak]

Individual counties are coming out on their own initiative as they are entitled to do.

The Tenth Judicial Circuit of Kansas will accept applications.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bzc5Q3sCMAAjw5r.png

Richmond County, SC has done the same in addition to Charleston.

None from North Carolina, West Virginia, or Wyoming have done so as of this post.

 

[Kulindahr]

I still want to know what that douchebag Scalia was on about. Maybe he's written a hell of a dissent.

And probably made up more "facts" to support himself. Really, if he had to sit in a chair made of pieces as real as some of the "facts" he's used to support his opinions, he'd be sitting on a pile of kindling on the floor.

 

[Kulindahr]

And. . .the occupants of the Loony Bin just keep getting loonier and loonier

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_yo...es-wacky-hetero-only-civil-unions-scheme.html

Jennifer Johnson Thieme has always been near the pinnacle of Mount Looney.

 

[Kulindahr]

I don't understand how a nine-justice Supreme Court, which is supposed to be absolutely impartial and nonpartisan, usually votes 5-4 on cases...AND which Justices will vote which way can almost always be predicted ahead of time.

Shouldn't there be a lot of 9-0 or 8-1 decisions?

There should, but no president since the rise of the so-called "Moral Majority" has made an appointment based only on merit.

The Supreme Court's philosophical foundation was that we would get actual statesmen in national office, at least in the Executive and in the Senate. We eliminated statesmen in the Senate by going to popular vote, and the presidency hasn't withstood that trend -- after all, from where could any statesmen come to fill that office?

Somehow, appointments to the Court have to be taken out of the hands of people with partisan ideologies.

 

[Kulindahr]

Sad to say but the Republicans made it their mission to get partisan hacks like Scalia and Thomas on the courts and they've succeeded.

And the Democrats. Honestly, FDR started it when he threatened to stack the Court.

 

[Kulindahr]

If the Supreme Court is looking for historically low levels of respect, the justices are going about it the right way.

No kidding!