A bid to revive Virginia’s gay- marriage ban follows a series of defeats this year for opponents of same-sex unions, after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June triggered challenges to restrictions nationwide.
Lawyers for two county clerks are set today to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond to reinstate the law in the face of 11 consecutive rulings in favor of same-sex marriage in state and federal courts. Their own attorney general, Democrat Mark Herring, refused to defend the law before it was ruled unconstitutional by a lower court judge in February.
The case is the third to reach a federal appeals court since the Supreme Court struck down a U.S. statute defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman. One or more of those cases may return the issue to the Supreme Court, which stopped short of declaring a right to gay marriage.
Today’s hearing comes just four days after an Arkansas judge declared that state’s bar to same-sex marriage invalid, basing his decision in part on a 1967 high-court ruling that voided a Virginia law banning interracial-marriage.
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6 comments:
Once again the homo's are trying to shove their sick agenda on Americans.
11-0 Have been the rulings on these bans.
As the judge in Idaho said Tuesday "the ban fails any constitutional test because the state has not offered a valid reason to justify it"
In other words there is no way to defend these bans.
Here is a simple arguement. One of the basic functions of life is to reproduce. Now to do that naturally you need one of each of the opposite sex. Since a same sex marriage cant do that, it is un-natural.
1:28
So do you believe that infertile straight couples shouldn't be allowed to marry? Or post-menopausal women? They can't reproduce either.
1:28 You would be laughed out of court.
2:21
Never said it was an arguement for the courts, which are infected with the liberal disease mindset anyways.
The only court I am worried about is God's.
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