Angela Marie Costanza and her wife, Chastity Shanelle Brewer, were legally married in California. They were in the process of suing to have their marriage recognized in their home state of Louisiana and for second-parent adoption when the U.S. Supreme Court made marriage equality a constitutional right.
Yesterday, the Louisiana Supreme Court dismissed their case, ruling that SCOTUS’ ruling “solved the matter.”
But not all the justices agreed.
In a two paragraph dissent, Justice Jefferson D. Hughes III, who was elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court in 2012, began by saying he couldn’t resist sharing his “honest convictions” over such an important matter. (What is the purpose of getting up on one’s soapbox if not to share their “honest convictions,” after all?) Then he got right to the point.
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He didn’t bother providing any legal arguments to support his position that the state should not be forced to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage. “Marriage is not only for the parties,” he wrote. “Its purpose is to provide children with a safe and stable environment in which to grow.”
“This case involves an adoption,” he continued. “The most troubling prospect of same sex marriage is the adoption by same sex partners of a young child of the same sex.”
Why is this so “troubling”? Hughes stops just short of saying, but the implication is clear. That old gays-as-pedophiles slander. But not all of Hughes’ colleagues are complete idiots.
Justice Greg Guidry responded to Hughes’ allegations by pointing out: “[t]he dissenting opinion appears to be unaware of the facts of the case before us, which involves the intra-family adoption of a boy by the female spouse of the boy’s biological mother.”
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Ron Jackson
How can someone that stupid be elected to the highest court in the state? But then it is Louisiana.
Richard James Henning
So, now he’s gonna imply that a Woman married another woman so she could adopt her wifes biological son in order to molest him?
Donnie Terflinger
Jamey Arnold
How the hell did he become a judge? Pie eating contest? Who colored inside the lines the best? These people are so incredibly stupid I can’t believe they have made it this far without killing themselves!! Get educated asshat!!
Lee Morris
Sounds like this judge has his own little child issues.
William Britton
So then Josh Duggars is “GAY” oh ok.
James Dauria
another asshole!
Sluggo2007
It’s Louisiana, for God’s sake! What do you expect?
Douglas Kovacs
really? give me a break,,, what if same gender parents just want to have a family and raise their children lovingly,, if not biological then through adoption,,, they are giving a child a loving home and a chance for a good life,, Nothing suggests that just because they are gay that they are pedophiles! Labeling is discrimination! This Judge is yet another person that needs to be removed from making decisions that affect good people!
Roger Curnock
What an idiot! Go away you homophobe!
Ladbrook
I’ve always thought it odd that gay/lesbian parents are often treated as potential pedophiles when they have a child of the same gender, but men (like this asswipe of a judge) are apparently free of suspicion when they have daughters.
Funny how that works… I wonder what he thinks of Josh Duggar being a daddy.
Shawn Casaba
His daddy taught him that.
Carlos Rodriguez
I can’t believe that there are so many idiots leading the Country…
Tom Hughsted
Most sexual abuse that occurs is male on female, at homes, with straight family members or neighbors. Why do they keep avoiding the statistics??
hyhybt
Strange; I don’t remember ever seeing the old “gay = pedophile” thing applied to lesbians before.
Chuck Davis
Caustic ass – try Duggar
Robert Coln
The guilty dog bark the loudest.
Joseph Dudley Manabat
Sounds to me, he is the child-molester.
Luis H. Lopez
Heterosexuals some are !!
Chris L. Reynolds
Well, that statement just shows you that intelligence isn’t a requirement for a State Supreme Court Judgeship!
Ron Bailey
Ignorance seems to know no bounds in the American South. Didn’t they fight a war over slavery? Didn’t they just have a massacre in a black Church? Don’t they STILL fly the Confederate flag over the Carolina capitol?
Ladbrook
Scratch the surface of this jerk’s life and I guarantee you’ll find something nasty… probably not pedo behavior, but definitely something corrupt, hateful, or sexually deviant. (I’m guessing a penchant for hookers, BDSM, or maybe a secret swingers club.)
Linda Hopp-Hill
Come on, you look smarter then that stupid statement, how can you pigeon-hole such a large group of people. I’m assuming you have proof, to back-up this statement. Otherwise, you not of what you speak.
Robin Mckennon
If that were true, then i suppose straight parents are attracted to their opposite sex child? This is one of the most idiotic things i have ever heard!
Robin Mckennon
Oh wait a minute, i just noticed his picture. I get it now!
Robert Paige
Sad thing is you don’t ever hear of a gay parent sexually abusing their kids its the homophobes that do its always on the news some sicko hurt their own children and you say we would be unfit stupid ass hate filled propaganda
Gerald GeeLocke Panuthos
looks like an inbred retard to me!
Tom Remillard
John DeGregory
:p
Gee Rosato
Usually what people scream about is what they are doing behind closed doors. So I bet this soulless ginger bangs his kids when the wife is out getting trained by jamal and Tyrone at the local motel 6
Cam
What a shock, bigots live in the south.
Craig Shapiro
This is so obviously a projection of his own behavior. People like that are hate mongers attempting to cover up there own insidious behaviors.
Jimmy McKinney
Just bc you are gay doesn’t mean you’re a pedophile you moron
Errol Semple
Louisiana Supreme Court Judge?
Harlan Smith
i think he has more than just a touch of “the gay gene”, himself.
James Lanigan
I think they need to go
Robert Zakem
Another Louisiana idiot emerges.
Ron Russell
Group think causes this sort of evil. Judges should judge on a case by case individual basis. I believe some gay folks might be pedophiles as are some heteros, most gay folks are not as are most heteros. Statistics are not reasons to convict an individual because people need to be judged by what they do not by what others do.
Realitycheck
@Robert Zakem: Thank you!
It would seem Louisiana has a higher level of idiots then most states.
May be they heard them together in Louisiana from all over the USA.
Eric Carr
Ill imply he’s a total Bigot.
Joel Quinones
He’s probably one himself.
Jimmy Lee
Someone is projecting I think.
Leon Rinehart
Takes one to know one, sonny….
Terrence Houlihan
STATISTICS prove 85% of PEDOPHILES are WHITE HETEROSEXUALS!!!!
Terrence Houlihan
Just ask HIM to clarify this statement with HIS BUDDY!!! Josh DUGGAR!!!
Bruce Campbell
Gee how come before the marriage equality he didn’t mention all the straight pedophiles
Milk
Duggar, catholic priests, duggar, catholic priests, duggar, catholic priests, duggar, catholic priests, duggar, catholic priests, duggar…………
Cory M. Warren
history actually proves you are more likely to be raped as a child by your siblings or your priest/preacher, than you are by a gay person. if you are conservative, it seems, the certainty of being raped as a child goes up considerably.
Chris Mommaerts
He’s nuts
Transiteer
Proof that you can elect idiots and morons to the high court. No professionals required.
Patrick Laney
Takes one to know one…
Gary Hecklinger
He needs to be replaced!!
Michael Estes
Oh, puhleeze! Was Josh Duggar gay when he was molesting his own SISTERS right under his parents’ noses?
Ra Hill
More likely He Is A Pedophile trying to distract the hypocrites!
Barb Kipper
This is just not true.
Dave Warren
He looks like he loves children, too much.
Lindy-Lou Nicholson
I’m sure that some are. You could probably find quite a few stories to back that up (and make the homophobes believe that they are right). However, it still does not mean that there is any evidence that paedophilia is any more prevalent than in straight families.
mikelphx
Can we stop being shocked by people in trailer trash backwoods states? There will always be random nut cases who spew their Tea Bagger (Party) talking points.
Bill Mountrey
Guess that comes from a lack of a good education and inbreeding.
Mike Weakley
Look at all the str8 people that give their children up for adoption, because they just don’t want them anymore. There are so many children that have been not adopted because no one in the str8 world wants them, so the gay community adopts them to give them what they need, a home, a shelter, and someone to love them for who they are, not for someone to toss them away like trash and forget about them like the str8 people do.
John Castrogiovanni
Ever notice these guys always have obnoxious looking hair?
Chris
I don’t read this as suggesting that the parents are pedophiles. Instead, I think that the judge is referencing the usual “children need a mother and father” canard. Absent something more explicit, I tend not to assume the worst simply because it probably is wrong.
Elliott Humrich
Louisiana isn’t a great recommendation!
Vanessa Forbes
You don’t hear about it on the news. It’s typically straight folks….that look like him.
Ron Berry
Opens mouth and stupidity just rolls out
David Lyle Jones-Munoz
I’m starting to believe that those who calls others Pedophiles are more likely to be pedophiles themselves! Go check this mans computer…. Suspicious to me!
Rick Wetzler
LOL WHO IS THIS nut?
Matthew Ethan Jordan
He is the pervert. Just look at him. Ugh.
Danny Adams II
Idiot
David O'Flaherty
I hate it when handsome men like the judge turn out to be ignorant assholes.
Monica Stamper Haggard
There are probably LESS gay parents that are pedophiles as opposed to straight parents. Think about it, the majority of those parents adopted their children and if you know much about adopting, it is a very long process in which everything about your background is checked. Therefore since you want to make assumptions about people or call names, you sir, are just a big ol’ homophobic court justice!
Luis H. Lopez
These antigay and rebellious acts against the ruling of the Supreme Court are paramount to treason !
Shawn Taylor
oh, you mean like Josh Duggar?
Alan Burnside
NSB2244
So using this judges hypothesis that gay parents are pedophiles, what are the parents of ignorant bigots assholes like himself?
Janna Burgart
Duh
Sam Waldorf
the typical situation of someone mouthing off without knowing the facts…. proving he is an IDIOT
Kenneth Fallows
Just when we thought it couldn’t get any more silly! Insane bigotry strikes again!
Alan David Smith
old argument that isn’t valid.
Raphael Snelten
Not true!!!
Carlos Maggard
Remove him from office
Carrlie McGowan
This is very offensive.. I have a daughter who is hay and the other is bi..my girls deserve the same kind of freedoms that the so called straight (I don’t think anyone is truely straight) When my oldest got married a fees years ago. I was just as proud as any parent giving their child to another in marriage.. Marriage is marriage to tell the world that this person is My choice, thisvthe one I’m spending my life with… No one.. And I mean NO ONE has the right to tell us to love. I love you Jess. Oxoxox msma
Carrlie McGowan
Really. So let’s just ysks more kids out of the hands of good loving patents and not consenttate on the real pediphiles running amuck…I was raised by two gay females. And you know what. It didn’t nor does it make me want to hurt children Ignorant asses. Maybe they are the ones who should be asking Gods for forgiveness .love is love and. God is all loving all forgiving And that is what My Gay parents taught me…
Renee Soth
Conservatives have equated homos with paedophiles for what seems like forever. It’s ultimately based in fear. Just what they’re afraid of isn’t always clear, but what I think they’re most afraid of is themselves.
ChutneyGray
I just can’t get over the feeling that what we have here is a case of the kettle calling the pot black. He’s very likely going to back in the news just like little Josh Duggar.
jwtraveler
@Douglas Kovacs: Thanks for clearing that up. Nobody reading this site would have thought of that.