SCOTUS pusses out on gay marriage.

[Brian37]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/natio.../16547165/

[Chas]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/natio.../16547165/

Not exactly. Note that by not hearing any of these appeals, they are letting stand rulings by federal judges that the bans are unconstitutional.

[Clueless Morgan]

Doesn't this imply good news for marriage equality rather than that SCOTUS is pussing out?

It means that the rulings of the lower courts in Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Indiana and Wisconsin (upholding marriage equality and the constitutional right to gays and lesbians to marry) stand.

It would be fantastic if the US had a nation-wide ruling on marriage equality, but this is still a win in my book.

[Brian37]

Oh bullshit. If the right of that court were not making it about their own personal beliefs and bigotry they could have ruled in favor of gays and put and end to it flat out. They are doing this to delay the inevitable.

[Clueless Morgan]

And are you really saying that ALL the SCOTUS judges are marriage equality bigots? Because if that were the case they would have agreed to hear this case and would have overturned the lower court rulings.

[vorlon13]

I concur with inevitable.

I also note, anywhere it's been made legal, there hasn't been much of whatever mysterious problem or catastrophe the Christers think is going to happen.

Some of the bizarro legal gyrations that occurred over the last 20 years are finally being addressed. I'm looking forward to Nebraska's state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage falling in the dustbin of history. It is so POORLY written that a strict literalist judge could actually rule home ownership, by anyone, is illegal. Other illegalites include driving, going to a restaurant, drinking alcohol or water, going to school, shaving, watching TV, voting in an election, vacuuming, painting, church attendance, printing or reading a newspaper, going to work, shopping in a mall, earning a degree, seeing a doctor, listening to a radio, and on and on and on.

[Anomalocaris]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/natio.../16547165/

Sometimes judicious pussing exhibit boldly decisive results.

[DramaQueen]

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I concur with inevitable.

I also note, anywhere it's been made legal, there hasn't been much of whatever mysterious problem or catastrophe the Christers think is going to happen.

Some of the bizarro legal gyrations that occurred over the last 20 years are finally being addressed. I'm looking forward to Nebraska's state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage falling in the dustbin of history. It is so POORLY written that a strict literalist judge could actually rule home ownership, by anyone, is illegal. Other illegalites include driving, going to a restaurant, drinking alcohol or water, going to school, shaving, watching TV, voting in an election, vacuuming, painting, church attendance, printing or reading a newspaper, going to work, shopping in a mall, earning a degree, seeing a doctor, listening to a radio, and on and on and on.

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That sounds like a Pakistani cult

[vorlon13]

They didn't mean to make EVERYTHING except heterosexual marriage illegal, but the amendment was so poorly written, an activist judge could cite it that way if he wanted, and I was hoping one would just to highlight the virulent, reactionary homophobia behind the amendment campaign.

[TaraJo]

They refused to overturn the lower courts rulings against same sex marriage. That's a win in my book. If they wait and rule later, that's fine by me; public opinion has shifted in favor of same sex marriage very rapidly over the past decade or so. I'd say that a ruling ten years from now will be far more generous than it would be today.