In amicus brief, DOJ says bans on gay marriage unconstitutional.

[hifiguy]

Excellent!!!

More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/gay-marriage-supreme-court_n_6819712.html?ir=Politics&utm_campaign=030615&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-politics&utm_content=FullStory&ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

"The amicus brief urges the Supreme Court to rule that such bans are "incompatible with the Constitution" because they "exclude a long-mistreated class of human beings from a legal and social status of tremendous import."

[Ms. Toad]

1. I participated in a different amicus brief filed today,

On behalf of faith groups tired of the right/conservatives claiming they speak for all people of faith.

It is the 11th such brief I've participated in, and my name's in it

Amici curiae (“Amici”) comprise a broad range of religious groups, organizations, and leaders (including nearly 2,000 individual clergy) who support equal treatment for same-sex couples with respect to civil marriage. While Amici come from faiths that have approached issues affecting lesbian and gay people and their families in different ways over the years, they are united in the belief that, in our vastly diverse and pluralistic society, particular religious views or definitions of marriage should not be permitted to influence which couples’ marriages the state recognizes or permits. Such rights must be determined by religiously neutral principles of equal protection under the law.

. . .

Amici do not suggest that their spiritual views on civil marriage equality should be imposed on anyone else. Rather, they present some of their beliefs here to counter the notion that any one segment of the religious community can claim divine or some other universally normative authority as a basis for exclusively reserving civil marriage for heterosexual couples—as, for example, some amici suggest by stating that their “theological perspectives, though often differing, converge on a critical point: that the traditional
husband-wife definition of marriage is vital to the welfare of children, families, and society. [Such f]aith communities . . . are among the essential pillars of this Nation’s marriage culture.” Undersigned Amici—including nearly 2,000 individual religious leaders spanning a rich diversity of American faith traditions—submit that their faith communities, too, are among the pillars supporting the institution of marriage in America. Amici therefore respectfully urge the Court to bear this diversity in mind when assessing the broad cultural implications of the decision it must reach in these cases, at this juncture of American history.

http://www.kramerlevin.com/files/upload/Brief_Obergefell.pdf

[blkmusclmachine]

2. I wonder what Pastors Thomas and Scalia will say from their SCOTUS pulpits?!?!