Justice Kennedy denies petition to stop gay ‘marriages’
The author of the Supreme Court's DOMA decision, which stated that advocates of traditional marriage are motivated by bigotry, has denied a petition to prevent California from resuming same-sex “marriages.” The high court released a statement yesterday stating tersely, "Justice [Anthony] Kennedy denied the application on his own, without further comment." Justice Anthony Kennedy dismissed the emergency motion. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) issued the emergency motion Saturday on behalf of the California residents who attempted to protect Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Among these is Dennis Hollingsworth of Hollingsworth v. Perry . The Supreme Court ruled that the people of California lacked standing to defend the case in federal court after Judge Vaughn Walker ruled the constitutional amendment unconstitutional shortly after its passage in November 2008. The Nint...