“Louisiana voters decided overwhelmingly to place in our constitution an amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman.”
Given that this is the same Louisiana whose voters once “decided overwhelmingly” that black Americans held the same rights as a sofa, I wouldn’t read too much into that.
They’re somewhat better armed today, and sadly, likely just as willing.
For Pete’s sake, TPM, why do you use some stock photo of Buddy when there is a picture right from the room when he gave the announcement?
“Louisiana AG: (Nothing) Everything In Ruling Changes Our Same-Sex Marriage Ban” (Yet). FIFY, LA AG
Hah, shows how much you know you hippylib. The Constitution clearly states in the Eleventeenth Amendment that SCOTUS decisions are not binding until they Double-Secret-Super-Pinkie-Swear that they Really, Really, Really Mean It, so help them Baby Jesus.
“traditional” definition
You might want to re-read that ruling then. Since you are dead wrong!
Or like this…
Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell also let it be known he felt the Emancipation Proclamation was an act of unconstutional Executive fiat. Louisiana would like the matter reconsidered.
Obviously the goddamned refs missed a traveling call that would have waived off the winning bucket!! Grrrr!!!
you don’t know how true that statement is…and I’m in Louisiana
Bobby Jindal has tacky throw pillows.
Louisiana Voters also don’t want:
I don’t know about you, but between the budget idiocy of Gov. Jindal and his legislature, the repeated stories of corruption in so many of the state’s systems, the steady destruction of its education system, and now its insistence that it is above the rule of the Supreme Court, I cannot think of a single reason I would ever want to live in Louisiana.
Louisiana. Where everyone is a frog and the pot is slowly coming to a boil.
Louisiana's same-sex marriage ban was the first in the nation to be upheld by a federal court -- and suggested that the Supreme Court was trampling on states' rights.
It’s really sad to see a state Attorney General who doesn’t understand the law. This outcome has been inevitable since the courts began to consider same-sex marriage as an Equal Protection of the Laws issue.If anything is trampling on states’ rights, it is the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court is simply upholding the 14th Amendment which prohibits any state from denying any person subject to its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
“This Supreme Court decision overturns the will of the people of Louisiana, and it takes away a right that should have been left to the states," he said in the statement. "Louisiana voters decided overwhelmingly to place in our constitution an amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman."
This is a non-starter. This matter was addressed by Justice Robert H. Jackson over 70 years ago:
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
West Virginia Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 638 (1943)
The majority doesn’t get to decide whether or not minorities are entitled to fundamental rights. They just are. And when the majority tries to withhold fundamental rights from minorities, it is the duty of the courts to step in and restore them.
You know, I’m just an art school drop out, but my understanding is that constitutional rights a there specifically to protect minorities from having those rights taken away by the majority.
Fine. Let them get married in another state and come back home after a honeymoon. Then what do you do?
Not to be pedantic, ok I am but… when King Canute commanded the tides not to come in it was supposed to have been because he was trying to see who in his court was truly loyal and would speak out against a bad idea and who was merely a sycophant.