Georgia seeks same-sex marriage lawsuit dismissal

[William769]

ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia's attorney general is asking a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit filed by a gay rights group challenging the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.

Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit in April on behalf of seven people. Attorney General Sam Olens, representing the state registrar, said in a filing Monday that the suit takes away Georgia residents' right to define marriage.

Olens' brief acknowledges a movement in some states to recognize same-sex marriage and public opinion polls that support those changes.

"But judicially imposing such a result now would merely wrest a potentially unifying popular victory from the hands of supporters and replace it instead with the stale conformity of compulsion," the brief says. "This Court should reject Plaintiffs' invitation to disregard controlling precedent, decline to anticipate a future ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, and dismiss Plaintiffs' claims in their entirety."

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Oy vey.

[shenmue]

1. Boo!

Jerkface! Pfffthph!

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Pasty-face doughboy Repube... but I'm being redundant.

I was gonna add Baptist but he's Jewish. How odd.

[Swede Atlanta]

3. The state's defense is laughable.....

They basically admitted that there is a popular move in this country toward allowing same-gender couples to marry.

They basically accepted that there is no compelling state interest in denying same-gender couples the right to marry.

Their whole argument was that the people of Georgia should be able to define marriage however they want (even if that is out of pure ignorance, stupidity or religious influence).

They gave no compelling reason for the state proscription on same gender marriage.

Even in Georgia I believe the U.S. District Court judge is going to deny summary judgment and allow the trial to proceed.

The numbers of district courts and now even circuit courts ruling in favor of marriage equality march on. I don't think even the SCOTUS is going to be able to stem the flood rushing at them. I know that Alito, Thomas and Scalia will deny same-gender couples equality but I do think Breyer and/or Kennedy and Roberts will side with the liberals on the court, Ginsburg, Kagan and Sotomajor.

[gratuitous]

4. "The stale conformity of compulsion"

Or, as it's known outside of the Georgia Attorney General's office, the Bill of Rights.