Comments on Secular Planet: Same-Sex Marriage & the Rule of Law

@Dave Huntsman You don't really disagree with me....

2009-05-28T07:10:22.684-04:00

@Dave Huntsman

You don't really disagree with me. You looked at their legal analysis and you think they're wrong. You didn't call them bigots simply because you didn't like the outcome. I never argued that their legal opinion was correct.

I disagree. The California Supreme Court is requir...

2009-05-28T01:38:26.024-04:00

I disagree.
The California Supreme Court is required to rule according to the U.S. Constitution. The people of California can't write a state Constitution that violates the U.S. Constitution (eg on Equal Equality); and the California Supreme Court has a duty to rule as such when the attempt is made. They didn't do their main job.

Prop 8 is one of the few things ever attempted that is 100% based on a religious view (unlike abortion, which is mostly - but not completely - based on a religious view). The California judiciary has acknowledged this in responding to previous amicus briefs. Thus, it is an attempt at establishment of religion, a violation of the U.S. Constitution that the California justices are sworn to protect, and they failed on that score as well.

On many points the issue vis a vis Prop 8 comes down to this: does the U.S. Constitution apply in California? By their ruling, the California Supreme Court says no.

They're wrong.

Yours is the second blog I have read taking this s...

2009-05-27T06:29:33.615-04:00

Yours is the second blog I have read taking this stand. I am glad to see not all people assume that because the ruling isn't what they want that it is wrong. I don't care one way or another about who can and can't get married. I feel that marriage is a sham and if I had my way it wouldn't even be a benefit to people in anyway. Yeah the marriage I had sucked so am a bit biased against marriage.