Ted Olson: 'Point of no return' on gay marriage passed

[theHandpuppet]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/27/capital-download-theodore-olson-supreme-court-gay-marriage/17952923/
Ted Olson: 'Point of no return' on gay marriage passed
Susan Page, USA TODAY
October 27, 2014

WASHINGTON -- Former solicitor general Theodore Olson, the Republican lawyer who argued Bush v. Gore and the challenge to California's Proposition 8, says the Supreme Court through action and inaction this month passed "the point of no return" on same-sex marriage.

"I do not believe that the United States Supreme Court could rule that all of those laws prohibiting marriage are suddenly constitutional after all these individuals have gotten married and their rights have changed," he said in an interview on Capital Download. "To have that snatched away, it seems to me, would be inhuman; it would be cruel; and it would be inconsistent with what the Supreme Court has said about these issues in the cases that it has rendered."

This month, the high court let stand without explanation appeals court rulings permitting gay marriage in five states. In an interview with The New Yorker published last week, President Obama said he believes it is a constitutional right but endorsed the court's incremental approach.

Olson disagrees with that, saying the Supreme Court should take a case and affirmatively endorse marriage as a constitutional right. "I think the thing he overlooks...(is) that there are people in 18 states of the United States that don't have this fundamental right that he has just announced that he believes in."... MORE at link provided above.

[shenmue]

1. I wonder when the last state to pass it will be

[Stuckinthebush]

4. $1000 says my state will be

Howdy from Alabama!

[shenmue]

5. O hai!

[Initech]

2. We seriously have 2/3 of the states at this point.

If Congress isn't proposing an equal rights amendment, they're only hurting themselves.

[okasha]

3. I'm not sure we need another amendment.

Enforcement of the 14th. and the full faith and credit clause should do the job.

[Joe Magarac]

6. I agree we don't need another constitutional amendment ...

... but some more explicit legislation at the federal level would be good.

[MNBrewer]

7. Incremental approach

such "fierce" advocacy