Posts

Showing posts with the label New Yorker

Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg officiates same-sex ‘wedding’

Image
WASHINGTON, D.C. , September 3, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews ) – After the U.S. Supreme Court ’s June decision striking down key portions of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which had previously banned federal recognition of same-sex “ marriages ,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday became the first Supreme Court justice to officiate a same-sex “wedding.” Prior to June’s ruling, Ginsburg, now 80, had told  The New Yorker  magazine that while she would be open to officiating at gay nuptials, she had never been asked to do so, despite the fact that same-sex “marriage” has been legal in Washington, D.C. since 2009. "I don't think anybody's asking us, because of [the DOMA] cases," she told the magazine at the time. "No one in the gay-rights movement wants to risk having any member of the court be criticized or asked to recuse. So I think that's the reason no one has asked me." Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg But with the DOMA and Pro

Homosexuals are never satisfied

Image
THE hand-flapping hysteria generated by the planned removal of the rainbow-coloured Taylor Square crosswalk is symptomatic of a politically correct push by the noisy end of the homosexual lobby to inflict its narrow agenda on the broader community. Roads Minister Duncan Gay may have thought he was doing the right thing when he gave Sydney City Council permission to install the gaily painted rainbow crossing at a cost of $95,000 but, as these gestures so often tend to do, his well-meaning act has boomeranged. As with all other gifts to noisy protest movements, the rainbow crosswalk has again demonstrated the failure of appeasement. Too much is never enough for minority activists. Forget the fact idiots want to have photographs of themselves lying on the crosswalk on Oxford St, one of the city's busiest thoroughfares, risking their lives. The minority lobby sees the opportunity to again inflict itself upon the majority. The minister's gesture of a painted crosswalk for the mo

NYTimes: Judge Says Suit to Void Gay Marriage Act May Proceed

Image
Image via Wikipedia Harshly criticizing Gov.  Andrew M. Cuomo  for the tactics he used to win approval of same-sex  marriage , a state judge has ruled that a  lawsuit  challenging the enactment of  New York ’s Marriage Equality Act can proceed. Acting  Justice  Robert B. Wiggins of  State Supreme Court  in Livingston County, in the  Finger Lakes region , wrote that it was possible that the  Republican  majority in the State Senate had violated the state’s open meetings law as it discussed whether to bring the marriage bill to a vote. His ruling offered a flash of hope for the conservative group that filed the lawsuit, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, which is asking the court to overturn the marriage law  and nullify the weddings that have been performed under it. ... Justice Wiggins was particularly critical of the governor’s use of a procedural maneuver that allowed legislators to vote on the Marriage Equality Act immediately after the bill was drafted, rather than waiting

Judge Says Suit to Void Marriage Act May Proceed

Image
FROM: NEW YORK TIMES Harshly criticizing Gov.  Andrew M. Cuomo  for the tactics he used to win approval of  same-sex marriage , a state judge has ruled that a  lawsuit  challenging the  enactment of New York’s Marriage Equality Act  can proceed. Acting Justice Robert B. Wiggins of  State Supreme Court in Livingston County, in the  Finger Lakes region , wrote that it was possible that the  Republican  majority in the State Senate had violated the state’s open meetings law as it discussed whether to bring the marriage bill to a vote. His ruling offered a flash of hope for the conservative group that filed the lawsuit,  New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms , which is asking the court to overturn the marriage law and nullify the weddings that have been performed under it. The state attorney general,  Eric T. Schneiderman , had sought the dismissal of the lawsuit. Justice Wiggins dismissed some elements of the case but said it could proceed on the open-meetings issue. His ruling, which