Same Sex Marriage Legal in Arizona

WHOOP AND A YEEHAW!!!!!!!

About time. Love is in the air.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2014/10/17/arizona-gay-marriage-ruling/17431229/

Amazing upward trend, and great to see Arizona doing this after the attempts to introduce legal discrimination not long ago x

Eilzel wrote:Amazing upward trend, and great to see Arizona doing this after the attempts to introduce legal discrimination not long ago x

damn straight baby x

It's not really Arizona per se.  Arizona is one of the nine states and two territories situated in the Ninth Circuit (Federal) Court of Appeals, sitting in San Francisco.  Unfortunately for conservatives, it is very liberal.  The Ninth Circuit was one of the federal courts that had previously held that it was illegal to prevent or prohibit gay marriage.  When the US Supreme Court refused all appeals from the appellate courts, it simply left standing existing decrees.  The Ninth Circuit decree is thus silently affirmed.

The Ninth Circuit is the largest and most liberal of the 13 federal courts of appeals.  It is often called the second Supreme Court because it does so much business that the nine justices of the US Supreme Court could not possibly handle the load.  So, Ninth Circuit decrees mostly go unchallenged and unreversed by shear volume of business.

But in this case, I think the Supreme Court knew what it was letting happen.

I know but to see Tom Horne on Tv announce he wouldn't be appealing was fantastic for this state - he knew time had come. after all he has messed up it was great to see him come to the realisation that he couldn't stop the winds of change. and as Les said even sweeter after what they tried to pull last year.

Yes, but Horne had no choice. He had already previously been ruled against. But I"m with you...it's fun to see the Mormons rub their bigoted noses in it...

Arizona Attorney General wrote:Horne conceded the same during his news conference, saying the possibility of reversing a ruling last week from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals striking down marriage restrictions in two other states was "zero," as is the likelihood of the Supreme Court taking up the case.

Love is all you need.

eddie wrote:

Love is all you need.

And sorely needed by an awful lot of people, apparently!

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/greg-abbotts-mind-bending-defense-banning-gay-marriage

Lord, does the man not think?  So...if you advocate reduced population growth, you can be in favour of gay marriage??

What about keeping your nose outta other people's business?  It always amazes me that conservatives are perpetually whining about government intrusion into their lives, but the assholes favour this shiet. Republicans are the best at social engineering.

"I never said all conservatives are stupid, what I said was all stupid people are conservative."
--John Stuart Mill

reducing unplanned out of wedlock pregnancies? ???????

oh sweet lord......somebody give that man some duct tape for his mouth for Christmas