AP 2 top courts rule against gay marriage

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060707/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage;_ylt=AjJAQYli.pTnWMJ4lUJzc.Os0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--


2 top courts rule against gay marriage

By MARK JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
31 minutes ago



ALBANY, N.Y. - The highest courts in two states dealt gay rights advocates dual setbacks Thursday, rejecting same-sex couples' bid to win marriage rights in New York and reinstating a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in Georgia.

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Activists had hoped to widen marriage rights for gays and lesbians beyond Massachusetts with a legal victory in liberal New York, but the Court of Appeals ruled 4-2 that the state's law allowing marriage only between a man and a woman was constitutional.

The decision comes two years after gay and lesbian couples, supported by gay-rights groups who saw a chance for a major court win in a populous state, sued for the right to wed.

"Clearly, in bringing the case and pushing it as hard as they did, it's pretty good evidence that they thought they had a substantial chance of victory," said Ohio State University law professor Marc Spindelman, who tracks lesbian and gay legal issues. "It's hard to read the decision as anything other than a rebuff of gay and lesbian couples."

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1. Election year wussies.....NT

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2. NYT For Gay Rights Movement, a Key Setback

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/nyregion/07gays.html?ei=5094&en=c2a63bf5dad8cae5&hp=&ex=1152331200&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print


July 7, 2006
News Analysis

For Gay Rights Movement, a Key Setback

By PATRICK HEALY

When Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage in November 2003, gay rights advocates imagined a chain reaction that would shake marriage laws until same-sex couples across the nation had the legal right to wed.

Nowhere did gay marriage seem like a natural fit more than New York, where the Stonewall uprising of 1969 provided inspiration for the gay rights movement and where a history of spirited progressivism had led some gay couples to envision their own weddings someday.

Yesterday's court ruling against gay marriage was more than a legal rebuke, then — it came as a shocking insult to gay rights groups. Leaders said they were stunned by both the rejection and the decision's language, which they saw as expressing more concern for the children of heterosexual couples than for the children of gay couples. They also took exception to the ruling's description of homosexuality as a preference rather than an orientation.

"I never would have dreamed that New York's highest court would be so callous and insulting to gay people — not in New York — to have a legal decision that treats us as if we are alien beings," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

The New York ruling came the same day that the Georgia Supreme Court reinstated a ban on gay marriage.

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3. Yay, an official sub-class.

We can all call them (them of course) unworthy and undeserving, unlike us (us of course, the clearly superior) and demand they (them) pay double tax.

wtf kind of justice is this???

wtf do they mean by "freedom?"

or "pursuit of happiness?"

and all men (and women) are created equal

and what the hell our nation stands for...deeply, and forever, that being equality and freedom.

and so it is written that we have an official second class in this nation???

I think we have to call bullshit...

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4. Both are very weak rulings and should both be over turned.

I'm fairly sure the NY case is heading for the SCOTUS, and the Georgia case should, it's even weaker than the NY case.

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5. Meanwhile, the harpies are playing the rulings

into their fundraising efforts ALREADY.

I'm on the AFA mailing list somehow, and got an email with a request for a donation from them last night.

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