9th circuit court attempts to redefine marriage

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
2/8/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

California based court is allowing gays and lesbians to redefine marriage.

California's ban on gay marriage appears headed to the United States Supreme Court following a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court ruled on Tuesday that Proposition 8 was a violation of the civil rights of gays and lesbians.

Gays and the courts are working to redefine marriage for everyone else.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The three judge panel affirmed the decision of a lower court judge who declared the same in 2010.

However, gay marriages in California are still forbidden as the ruling will be appealed to a larger panel of the 9th Circuit and could potentially make its way to the US Supreme Court.

Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who happens to be one of the courts most liberal judges said in his ruling, "Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples."

However Proposition 8 proponents argue that it does no such thing. In that status quo, any individual, regardless of personal choice, may still marry a person of the opposite sex if they so choose. Allowing gays and lesbians to marry members of the same sex would amount to extra rights, not afforded by the definition of marriage which is exclusively between a man and a woman.

More than 50 people celebrated the announcement today outside of San Francisco's federal courthouse. The group made mostly of gays and lesbians waved rainbow flags and held signs in opposition to Proposition 8.

While the gay movement insists that the gay lifestyle should be accepted as mainstream, alongside traditional marriage and culture, they are brushing aside the mainstream majority that passed Proposition 8 in 2008. At that time, virtually every county in the state voted in favor of the proposition to recognize marriage as a union that is only possible between one man and one woman.

If Proposition 8 is ultimately defeated, proponents warn that it could set a precedent that allows gays and lesbians to redefine the meaning of marriage for everybody else in the country.

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Keywords: Gays marriage, proposition 8, 9th US Circuit Court, appeal

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1 - 6 of 6 Comments

Liberty
1 year ago
The Obama administration has appointed over 125 "activist" Judges thus far. Another term will change the make up of the Spreme Court, which will deal the fatal blow to our Founding values. We are fighting a battle that started 100 years ago with the infiltration of Marxist/ Communists and a plan to dismantle America from within. Me must as Christians stand up to this affront on our Founding, take back our schools, our communities, our airwaves, and our Country. We must not be silent: for not to speak is to speak. Marriage is a Sacrament not a Government function, let your voice be heard.
abey
1 year ago
For a Judge in trying to define a marriage is overstepping his work, not authorized to define it in the strict sense of the law, in the insufficient knowledge to the roots of & in the definition of Marriage, amounting to upsetting of natural balances, even trying to understand it & define it in terms of the law, which is to severe consequences for man & his life for which the Bible states "Thinking to change times & laws", for even a Judge be a worm before GOD without exception.
techwreck
1 year ago
The outcome of the 9th Circuit appeal was a given because of their often overturned, left leaning rulings. Anthony Kennedy will again take center stage as the Supreme Court hears this case, and we will learn whether or not the will of "We the People" and the content of our Constitution means anything in this country. Don't get your hopes up!
Robert
1 year ago
Hello. Can anyone say, "Clinton and Carter appointments" ??, can anyone say Democrats?
Can anyone say, "Healthcare Mandate and the destruction of religious liberty"? Can anyone say "Democrats"?? Hmmm it appears there may be a war on the family and Judeo Chrisitan Values, Hmm.

Pray, contribute, and vote conservative. Please. For the sake of the nation! Souls are at stake!!!!
Samuel Hopper
1 year ago
The gay agenda in this battle is really over semantics. Regardless of what the courts ultimately find, gays will neither gain nor lose a single right. The state of California has recognized civil unions for some years affording those in gay relationships the same rights as heterosexual couples who are married or in a civil union. The gays pushing this agenda want to call their relationships marriage which is something many have been doing for many years anyway. Whether they have the consent of the law or not, they can call their relationships whatever they want. I can call a fence-post a cow. My declaration, though, does not make it so. Any authentic Christian understands that God created woman for man and their union is the only union that can make for a Christian marriage. Anything else is not Christian. The real danger we're facing is the intrusion of the government into religious affairs. If all Christians, not just Catholics, don't start pushing back, the government with judicial approval will begin to dictate (or at least try to) what we can practice.
Andrew
1 year ago
Not unexpected given the opinion was written by one of the most overturned judges in the federal appellate system and one who is himself homosexual. To suggest that this right is Constitutional is historically and legally untenable. In fact, it's engaging in legal fiction.

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