Calif. Court Voids S.F. Same-Sex Marriages
In this AP story, we read that the California Supreme Court ruled that the nearly 4000 marriages that took place under the authority of the San Francisco mayor earlier this year are not valid.
Why? The timing is not right. They can’t go forward with this until the Supreme Court of the United States gives them a precedent. They admitted it in their ruling…
The justices separately decided with a 5-2 vote to nullify the 3,995 marriages peformed between Feb. 12 and March 11, when the court halted the weddings. Their legality, Justice Joyce Kennard wrote, must wait until courts resolve the constitutionality of state laws that restrict marriages to opposite-sex couples.
Who can overrule all of the states with one decision? The U.S. Supreme Court. That is why President Bush and others are correct in seeing the dire need for a Constitutional amendment because the constitutionality of the laws that the states inact from the will of the people is going to be resolved (or overruled) by the courts (the U.S. Supreme Court).
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