Same-sex marriages

I'm sorry for not doing a post sooner on the historic ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 9 th Circuit which upheld Judge Vaughn Walker's ruing that found California's religious bigotry based Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Personally, having read the U. S. Supreme Court decisions in the Romer v. Evans and Lawrence v. Texas cases and other federal court rulings, I don't see how the 9 th Circuit could have rendered a different decision without gutting the U. S. Constitution's...Read Full Story

(GettyImages.com) (GettyImages.com) Proposition 8 , California’s measure to ban same-sex marriage, was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court on Tuesday. Within moments of the historic decision, Hollywood took to Twitter to celebrate the verdict. Check out what stars had to say about the overturning of Prop 8 below! Ellen DeGeneres wrote, “Today we took another step towards equality. #Prop8 was found unconstitutional again. I couldn’t be happier.” Seth MacFarlane stated...Read Full Story

Well, here's the decision from the 9th Circuit out in California, released as expected today.  The three-judge panel affirmed the lower federal court's decision finding Proposition 8 unconstitutional.  See the AP article on this here .    After reading the decision (and dissent) just then, I concur with Barry Deutsch, who opines here that this ruling is likely to survive scrutiny by the US Supreme Court because it was decided on narrow grounds.   It does not  in fact declare that the US...Read Full Story

A federal court decided on Tuesday to uphold a ruling from 2010 that declared the ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional — and it caused a hubbub on the interwebs. The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to uphold a lower court’s decision that declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional in 2010. Within less than an hour “ Prop 8 ” became a trending term on Twitter, according to WhatTheTrend.com . The Facebook page for No on Prop 8 had 1,433 likes for a...Read Full Story

A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California’s same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge correctly interpreted the U.S. Constitution when he declared in 2010 that Proposition 8 was a violation of the civil rights of gays and lesbians. The passage of the ban followed the...Read Full Story