The California Supreme Court 4-3 pro-gay marriage ruling

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on May 16, 2008 at 8:51 am

I haven’t had a chance to look at the opinion on the CSC ruling in favor of gay marriage (I plan on reading it this evening), but wanted to link up to others who have and wrote about it. National Review has several opinion pieces up today devoted to the issue, and Eugene Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy legal blog has some thoughts on it as well.

For those who are relatively new to the blog and haven’t had the chance to read it, my opinion on gay marriage is here. A lot of it has to do with the slippery slope factor, a factor that, according to Volokh’s post above, was essentially dismissed as irrelevant by the California Supreme Court.

Read more via The Anchoress, Captain Ed, Stop The ACLU, and Justin Levine at Patterico’s blog.

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  1. yo says:

    Not a good sign for america when judges can overturn laws to suit their social agenda. No provision for this in cal constitution, (i’ve been told by those in the know). Constitutions are supposed to give rights to gov’t to do this sort of thing when it is “specifically enumerated” to do so by their constitution. This ruling is a joke in that regard.

    What are we going to do about these judges?

    I know! Let’s impeach every last libtard one of them!:d

  2. clifto says:

    Why does there seem to be surprise over this ruling? There could have been no other. My only surprise is now, as I first find that three sludges voted sanely. If the 4-3 figure had not come from here I would be actively checking the vote and fully expecting to find it to have been 7-0.

  3. ck says:

    Who gets all the stuff in a gay divorce? Do they wait for a lesbian divorce and give all the stuff to them?

  4. teqjack says:

    I wouldn’t mind objections to the “judicial activism” apparent. I am leery of such myself.

    But reading the comments on a number of blogs (e.g. see multiple posts on Dean’s World) I have not seen this. I may have missed one, but that leaves hundreds that are about how the State should/must define marriage.

    Well, I might be better disposed to listen to them if the majority did not belong to religious groups which define marriage in such a way as to say that my Christian forebears weree never married. The State[s] say they were. I do not want the State to accept the rulings of the groups which disagree.

    No US State now requires a religious acceptance for its “marriage” papers. Indeed, my State will allow only some six religions to apply for permission to sign the State papers in lieu of a non-sectarian Judge or other State functionary. Want to be married in a Shinto rite? Fine – but the State does not recognize it, you will also have to have it signed by a State official. BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO – you can consider yourself married and accept that the State will not treat you as such – so if your spouse is in a hospital ICU you will not be allowed to visit because you are not legally “family.”

    Slippery slope to polygamy, polygany, polyandry? Maybe. To pedophilic marriage, marriage with non-humans? Doubtful.

  5. teqjack says:

    OK, I have overstayed, yet one more thing.

    If you church does not want to perform same-sex marriages, the State will not force it to.

    If you want to refrain from viewing a same-sex marriage as proper, fine – except where the State has attached certain things, such as property and inheritance qualifications, to its certificate.

  6. sanity says:

    The Majority of CA did not want this, I believe it was voted on.

    The CA supreme court discounted what the people wanted and instituded thier own.

    Question: How will this play into other States?
    If a married same-sex couple goes to another state is that state by law now have to recognize that marriage, because it is a ‘right’?

    Question: How does this play with Barry O? He has consistently been very slippery on this issue of gay marriage, not giving any substanive answer because it would affect his ability to pull votes one way or another.

    Could Barry O ‘outrage’ at Bush’s remarks be a cover for the CA supreme court decision to draw attention away from it?

  7. Severian says:

    Who gets all the stuff in a gay divorce? Do they wait for a lesbian divorce and give all the stuff to them?

    The “catcher” not the “pitcher.” ;)

  8. NC Cop says:

    Hmmmm….once again, aren’t the Republicans supposed to be the ones who throw the desires of “the people” to the wind and impose their will on others?