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It shouldn't be so surprising that even the most conservative judges are striking down bans.
I'm hoping that if enough circuit courts uphold marriage equality, that SCOTUS will just lump them all in together and rule on everything once and for all. Nationwide marriage equality comes to the entire country June 2015, just in time for the next Pride Season. That is what I want to see.
Ironically, things are going so well in the federal courts that the Supreme Court may not get involved at all. So far, virtually every federal judge has ruled in favor of marriage equality since the Windsor case invalidated the federal DOMA. And they've almost all quoted the Windsor case in their rulings. Since these rulings have universally ruled the same way, the Supreme Court doesn't need to act. The Supreme Court is actually much more likely to step in if a federal judge (or an appeals court) rules against marriage equality. Then you'd have conflicting judgements, and the Supreme Court would have to settle the legal conflict. As long as there is no legal conflict, the Supreme Court can ignore the issue. And oddly, right now there is no apparent legal conflict, since all the rulings are going one way.
IOW, our bigots are exporting the hate elsewhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2W41pvvZ…
"Though it seems almost unnecessary to explain, here are the reasons why.
"Even assuming the state has a legitimate interest in promoting procreation, the Court fails to see, and Defendant never explains, how the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage has any effect whatsoever on procreation among heterosexual spouses. Excluding same-sex couples from marriage does not change the number of heterosexual couples who choose to get married, the number who choose to have children, or the number of children they have.
"The state’s attempts to connect the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage to its interest in economic stability and in 'ensuring humanity’s continued existence' are at best illogical and even bewildering…The Court can think of no other conceivable legitimate reason for Kentucky’s laws excluding same-sex couples from marriage."
Yay for a little reason and logic somewhere in the world. The Hobby Lobby decision has made me too morose for words.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/232140349/3-13…
He goes through a long analysis clearly demonstrating why heightened scrutiny would be the appropriate burden to judge the State's laws under. Then he as much as says, "Well, never mind," and turns around and thoroughly eviscerates the State's ban under the most lax and forgiving standard ever applied to state laws, that they merely should proffer some rational purpose. This wasn't just a put-down, it was a roast. It was Zorro shredding the opponents' clothes and then carving his initials in their chests.
One Correction: The Hobby Lobby verdict was not a just decision (requires objective thought and careful reflection), it was an ideological decree from the bench (requires only ego and power).
The court has, once again, failed in the duty to which it is charged, namely justice.
Those five, old catholic men in robes are playing pope in the service of their grossly inflated egos.
Playing God(s) is the act of fools.
Thankfully, the law of unintended consequences rules in the land of zealous fundamentalists.
It's time for a single payer system that frees workers from servitude to bad employers and frees employers, willingly or unwillingly, from the role of parent and guardian or lord and master. In their unbridled arrogance, the justices have helped speed single payer into existence while diminishing the power of the future court by exposing its human weaknesses.
Hobby Lobby has opened the doors for competitors; its identity as old, bigoted and segregated does not appeal to younger people. Hobby Lobby will either change ownership and its values or shrink dramatically with each passing quarter to serve an ever smaller group of like-minded customers until neither exist any longer.
I, too, needed this after the SCOTUS decisions this week.
It's a genuinely thrilling time to be living if you support gay marriage - to be witnessing the crumbling of the old guard - to be witnessing history. Hooray for the modern age.
Does this mean they will be marrying their same-sex cousins?
It's not like if gay people can't marry each other they're going to say, "Aw shucks, might as well turn straight, get married to a person of the opposite sex, and start cranking out babies".
Dude, I make a joke about the stereotype of Kentuckians banging their cousin, and that's your reply? Really?
Jesus, you need to loosen up.