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Illinois to become 15th state to recognize marriage equality
RE: Illinois to become 15th state to recognize marriage equality
Again, speaking of Bill Maher...as I was in another thread....last night he began the show with Dan Savage who gave it to the fucking church as well as anyone I've seen ever. It's the first part of the discussion.



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RE: Illinois to become 15th state to recognize marriage equality
And now Nevada joins Virginia in deciding not to defend the ban in appellate court proceedings.

http://news.yahoo.com/nevada-officials-w...25895.html

Quote:CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada's attorney general and governor said Monday that they won't defend the state's gay marriage ban when it goes before a federal appeals court, saying that a recent court decision makes the state's arguments supporting its constitutional amendment "no longer defensible."




Had to fix the Dan Savage/Bill Maher clip from above.

http://youtu.be/WbuW9TC_6CM

As a matter of fact, I'm downloading this clip to my own computer so that I always have it to shove up the ass of sanctimonious catholic bastards.
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RE: Illinois to become 15th state to recognize marriage equality
Awesome. First, my second home state, now my current:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/2...eral-judge

At this rate, it'll all be over by the end of the decade.
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RE: Illinois to become 15th state to recognize marriage equality
Quote:Ruling in a suit brought by four gay and lesbian couples, Heyburn said that while “religious beliefs ... are vital to the fabric of society ... assigning a religious or traditional rationale for a law does not make it constitutional when that law discriminates against a class of people without other reasons.”

The judge could have left out that sop to the ignorant in my opinion.
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RE: Illinois to become 15th state to recognize marriage equality
And count another one: Gay Marriage ban struck down in Virginia.
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RE: Illinois to become 15th state to recognize marriage equality
Again, the federal courts are simply following the decision of the SC in Romer v Evans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer_v._Evans

Quote:Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with sexual orientation and state laws. It was the first Supreme Court case to address gay rights since Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), when the Court had held that laws criminalizing sodomy were constitutional.[1]

The Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that a state constitutional amendment in Colorado preventing protected status based upon homosexuality or bisexuality did not pass the rational basis test, under the Equal Protection Clause.[2] The decision in Romer set the stage for Lawrence v. Texas (2003), where the Court overruled its decision in Bowers,[1] and for the Supreme Court ruling striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in United States v. Windsor (2013).
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