"Gays ruin marriage!" 'ORLY? PROVE IT.'

[jesidres]

Judge refuses to dismiss gay marriage ban suit

He asks lawyers to show how gay unions pose threat to traditional ones
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge challenged the backers of California's voter-enacted ban on same-sex marriage Wednesday to explain how allowing gay couples to wed threatens conventional unions, a demand that prompted their lawyer to

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[salienne]

This judge gives me warm fuzzy feelings. ^.^

[jesidres]

Doesn't he?

Also, completely OT, but every time I see your icon I have to giggle.

[salienne]

Also, completely OT, but every time I see your icon I have to giggle.

mte in regards to your icon

That is AMAZING.

[jesidres]

You know during the The Last of the Time Lords you were just waiting for him to yell "Gallifrey Power Makeup"!

It would have made probably just as much sense.

[bludstone]

He asks lawyers to show how gay unions pose threat to traditional ones

Oh this is going to be fantastic.

[quizzicalsphinx]

Well obviously if gays get married, they're going to . . . um, invite straight friends to their wedding. Some of whom might be married. And the straight married friends might have to request time off from work. And if a whole bunch of people request time off from work to attend friends' marriages all at once, it will weaken our already unstable economy. There's a lot of research backing the fact that a high percentage of divorces are caused by disagreements on household finances. Therefore . . . okay, okay, I am really reaching here.

[bludstone]

THIS POPCORN COULD USE MORE SALT

[quizzicalsphinx]

I HAVE NO SALT. ONLY BITTERNESS.

[eyetosky]

Usually I quote a 'lil bit of the article in italics to hone a reaction, but I could not choose out of the cavalcade of silliness coming out of Cooper's mouth, nor could I pinpoint the most awesome of the judge's comments and questions, because it was all that good.

This'll be like the Creationism trials all over again, except they'll have to try and prove their point with science(!), and it is not on their side.

[jesidres]

I know, and its just sending warm fuzzies through my heart- what are they going to do, point to Massachusetts as proof? MA's divorce rate has steadily DECREASED over the last five years since Gay marriage was legalized.

[apocalypsos]

They know they can't use it as proof, too. Look at the lawyer's idiot comment about how they don't have enough information out of the test case of Massachusetts yet. Of course not, silly! The gays haven't started forcefully divorcing the rest of the population yet!

[papilio_luna]

Accusations of ZOMG ACTIVIST JUDGE in 3... 2... 1...

"What really is happening is the voters who passed Proposition 8 are essentially on trial in this case, and they continue to be accused of being irrational and bigoted for restoring the traditional definition of marriage," he said.

Well good, I'm glad we're all clear on that.

[apocalypsos]

they continue to be accused of being irrational and bigoted for restoring the traditional definition of marriage

Funny, I don't remember Prop 8 rescinding women's rights and reinstating dowries.

[papilio_luna]

Well, mainly the being irrational and bigoted part, because they are definitely that. This whole "traditional marriage" rhetoric is just ricockulous anyway. Traditional where? For whom? At what point in history?

[quizzicalsphinx]

A young lady on my f-list did a wonderful send-up of the idea of "returning to traditional marriage."

[apocalypsos]

So basically, if I'm reading the lawyer correctly, "I have no evidence, therefore you should side with me."

... okay! *eyeroll*

I love that this judge is making him prove it. Because, you know, it's a courtroom. Maybe somebody should tell these lawyers that's what they're supposed to DO there.

[kimbari]

Maybe somebody should tell these lawyers that's what they're supposed to DO there.

Okay?

AFAIC, there's not enough of that in court!