BREAKING: California Supreme Court overturns same-sex marriage ban

[Oeditpus Rex]

Now with link: http://cbs5.com/local/gay.marriage.ruling.2.724840.html



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[BarenakedLady]

1. Awesome!

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[KitchenWitch]

2. FANTASTIC!

[bicentennial_baby]

3. WOOHOO!! HAPPY DAY!!!

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[terrya]

4. FANTASTIC!!!! What a great day!

This will mobilize the brain dead bigots...but fuck them. Schwartzenegger said that he would oppose any anti-gay consitutional amendment in California.

This is truly an historic day!

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. They're already mobilized

They've been circulating petitions for a November ballot measure to amend the state constitution in anticipation of this.

If they get it on the ballot, I promise you I'll work to keep it from passing.

[KitchenWitch]

10. I will also work to keep the ballot prop from passing

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[terrya]

13. Thanks!

Yeah, I'm sure Randy Thomasson and his ilk are already mobilized. But California is NOT, thankfully, Idaho or Texas...I think there's a very good chance this will stay...and there will be legal same-sex marriage in California. This really is big news. :-)

[Reverend_Smitty]

5. That's great to hear

You gotta love it when a state comes to it's senses!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. awesome.

now i really want to get my phd in california

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. C'mon out!

We've got one or two pretty good little red schoolhouses. :D



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[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. i am looking into berkeley

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. That's only about 100 miles from me

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[Fox Mulder]

9. That's some great news!

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[ghostsofgiants]

14. Nice!

Good job, California.

[suninvited]

15. I just read that !

fantastic news.

[fizzgig]

16. that is so fantastic that i'm actually crying a bit

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[Kajsa]

17. ABOUT TIME!!

This is fantastic news!

Thanks, Oeditpus Rex!

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[bigwillq]

18. Happy, happy joy, joy!

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[Hayabusa]

19. I give it less than a week,

before it's struck down yet again.

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. By what?

A higher court than the state Supreme Court? :shrug:

[Hayabusa]

21. Yep

The national Supreme Court.

Call me a pessimist, but that's what will happen.

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. Well, just call me a silly old Constitutionalist

but wouldn't that be sorta contrary to the Tenth Amendment? :shrug:

[Hayabusa]

24. I wouldn't put it past them...

but I hope others would see it that way. I hope the 14th gets involved, too. Should be legal everywhere, not just in California.

[Shakespeare]

31. You do understand the process doesn't work like that, don't you?

The appeal process is rather lengthy; it'll take months or even a year or two before anything happens on the SCOTUS level.

[huskerlaw]

36. Won't happen.

First of all, it can't be appealed to the US Supreme Court in a week. It takes years.

Secondly, the opinion (all 172 pages of it) specifically focus on the CALIFORNIA constitution. I haven't read the entire thing yet, but from what I can tell, the CA Supreme Court based their decision solely on defining the rights that are granted to the citizens of CA under our state constitution. The federal constitution hasn't even been mentioned, so far as I've read.

The United States Supreme Court doesn't have jurisdiction in a case where a state supreme court is interpreting only state law.

:woohoo:

(of course, this doesn't stop the citizens of CA from trying to overturn it themselves)

[bicentennial_baby]

25. Why? That didn't happen in MA...

And, yeah, I think the Constitution kinda overrules that.

[NewJeffCT]

29. Was Roberts the Chief Justice then?

or was it still Rehnquist?

[Rising Phoenix]

23. that kicks ass

:woohoo: :party:

[Shine]

26. Here's to living in sunny and hot California!! Progressive and cutting edge!

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[joneschick]

27. Let's all go over to Cooking and Baking

and do some celebrating. :hi:



(it's ok, we'll all fit in the kitchen and I got the dishwasher fixed this morning):toast:

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. I'm more interested in what the Supreme Court would do if they were Hitler.

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. Scalia would annex the Sudetenland

Roberts would pay some Dutchman to set fire to Lord Snowden.

[skygazer]

30. Damn PROUD to be an adopted Californian today

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[Oeditpus Rex]

34. I'm purty damned proud to be a native

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[Lil Missy]

35. Great News!!!

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