Time Buying.
“The attorneys general of 10 states are urging the California Supreme Court to delay finalizing its ruling to legalize same-sex marriage. The attorneys general say in court documents filed Thursday that they have an interest in the case because they would have to determine if their states would recognize the marriage of gay residents who wed in California. They want the court to stay its ruling until after the November election, when voters likely will decide whether to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage.” [SOVO]
The AG’s in those 10 other states should stfu + worry about their respective states.
I’m biased, but idrc.
I still don’t know why the Contracts Clause in the US constitution doesn’t simply settle this. A contract that is valid in one state is valid in all other states. The three tests are as follows:
1 – Does state legislation substantially impair a party’s rights under an existing contract? If not, then it must:
2 – Serve an important and legitimate public interest; and
3 – Be a reasonable and narrowly tailored means of promoting that public interest.
I assume at some point some queer couple who got married in California will have problems like visiting each other in the hospital or making medical decisions because the state in which they now live won’t recognize their marriage. Then we’ve got a real legal battle on our hands.
What idiots. One state already has gay marriage so their request makes no sense. They have to decide whether to recognize a marriage from MA already. What difference does it make if they have 1 state or 2 to deal with?
I’m so disgusted to find out that my own state’s (Michigan) attorney general was among the meddlers.
I just sent off more than a few carefully chosen words in care of said Attorney General, Mike Cox.
The last name is certainly fitting. What a d*ck.
My family has been in California since before it was a state. Those interlopers and outsiders can take their meddlesome attitudes and leave my state alone.
The California Supreme Court, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Senate, House, and citizens are all in support of gay marriage. If Utah’s AG doesn’t like it then he should stay out of California.
It is getting to the to the point that we should riot if the AG’s fuck this up.
“They have to decide whether to recognize a marriage from MA already.”
Actually, they don’t have to decide whether to recognize a marriage from MA already. Only gay people who reside in MA can get married there. Sure some people from MA may move elsewhere, but CA is going to be a free for all with thousands of people from all over coming there to get married as there is no residency requirement for marriage in CA.
Let me guess, all the AG asking for the stay are Republicans.
There is a big difference because Massachusetts marriages are for state residents only The amount of gay married MA residents moving to other states is tiny compared to the amount who would travel to California to get married.
A single gay married couple moving from Massachusetts would cause these states to deal with the issue. The larger possible number coming in from California is irrelevant.
What would have been surprising is if Florida weren’t on the list.
Good point FOOFYJIM. The public interests in states not to recognize California contracts is not legitimate. Those states public interests are based on conventional religious concepts about marriage.
I havn’t even , untill recently thought that marriage as such was an especially ideal solution to our dilemnas. I have gotten really pissed off though about the absurdly erratic response to this matter and would love to shove the issue down as many bigoted throats as posssible. As Foofyjim states , the contracts clause would take care of issues. It seems that that’s what these states are trying to get the jump on befor they have too many cases to determine in courts which they are afraid might be sympathetic on the grounds given in the Clause. i Don’t think that california will do anything to accomodate their asshole ways.
It’s an insult to the CA court to expect them to make a secondary ruling that almost says” well and just in case we’re wrong”.
What’s most disgusting, imo, is the nerve of gay marriage opponents spending up to 25 million dollars to campaign against “the homos” getting married in Cali. That same 25 million dollars could feed starving children, help find a cure for a major illness, improve shitty schools, etc., etc. WWJD?
I’m sure he would tell these “morally superior” busy-bodies to put that money to much better use.