Politics Three Cheers for State Supreme Court Justice Tom Chambers
Well, that was delightful. I just got off the phone with incumbent state Supreme Court Justice Tom Chambers.
The Stranger Election Control Board isn’t on speaking terms anymore thanks to our squabbling over the 43rd District Rep endorsement (no decision yet). So, we’re having a hard time convening…and in turn, I wound up with the lonely task of interviewing incumbent/candidate Chambers by myself.
Well burn on you guys. It was a treat. Chambers is awesome.
He dissented on last month’s DOMA ruling. Here’s what he told me about that:
The state has set up laws to make gays and lesbians parents. Assisted fertilization laws. In vitro fertilization laws. The state has said its discriminatory for gays and lesbians not to be able to procreate. They’ve set up laws so gays and lesbians can procreate. There’s also adoption laws that make gays and lesbians parents. It is too late for the state to say gays and lesbians can’t marry because they can’t procreate or be parents. That’s out of whack. It struck me as irrational.
“Irrational”, obviously, being a deliberate word choice since Chambers was gauging if the state legislature had a “rational basis” to pass DOMA.
Oh, as to the weird and unnecessary article in the papers today about the motorcycle accident Chambers didn’t report to the police (he reported it to his insurance company and took his passenger straight to the ER): His campaign manager says she thinks he rides a Harley.
American made! Used to own HDI stock, great company.