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NY Court of Appeals slams the door on challenge to same-sex 'marriage' law

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NEW YORK, October 24, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Same-sex “marriage” is here to stay, at least according to the New York State Court of Appeals . On Tuesday the appellate court refused to hear a case challenging the state’s gay marriage law. The court gave no explanation for its decision. The suit, filed by New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedom, argued the State Senate ran afoul of state law in their push to approve same-sex “marriage,” holding closed-door meetings in violation of New York ’s “open meetings” statute. The court’s rejection of the case prompted Governor Andrew Cuomo to release a statement saying, “With the Court’s decision, same-sex couples no longer have to worry that their right to marry could be legally challenged in this state. The freedom to marry in this 9tate is secure for generations to come.” Thousands of homosexual couples have taken advantage of the state’s same-sex “marriage” law since it was passed in July 2011. “Obviously we’re disapp...

No right to “homosexual marriage” is found in the Constitution

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U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) To many people it will seem obvious that the US Constitution , which says nothing at all about homosexual marriage , cannot be claimed to support any “right” to homosexual marriage. The US Supreme Court has not ruled on this issue, but several state courts have issued rulings. Most notably the Massachusetts, Connecticut,45 and Iowa supreme courts have now “found” a right to same-sex marriage in state constitutions that contained absolutely no mention at all of homosexual marriage. The California Supreme Court also created a “right” to same-sex marriage, but that decision was overturned when the voters in November 2008 passed Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that restored marriage as the union between one man and one woman. How could various courts “discover” same-sex “marriage” in their state constitutions? Or how could it ever be decreed by any federal court or by the US Supreme Court? Only if it were invented by ...