I’m still working my way through reading the Prop 8 decision and writing a post on it, but for now, here’s what NOM’s bigots had to say, courtesy of Towleroad.
First up, Brian Brown:
“As sweeping and wrong-headed as this decision is, it nonetheless was as predictable as the outcome of a Harlem Globetrotters exhibition game,” said Brian Brown, NOM’s president. “We have anticipated this outcome since the moment San Francisco Judge Vaughn Walker’s first hearing in the case. Now we have the field cleared to take this issue to the US Supreme Court, where we have every confidence we will prevail.”
And then John Eastman:
“Never before has a federal appeals court – or any federal court for that matter – found a right to gay marriage under the US Constitution,” said constitutional scholar John Eastman, who is chairman of NOM. “The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is the most overturned circuit in the country, and Judge Stephen Reinhardt, the author of today’s absurd ruling is the most overturned federal judge in America. Today’s ruling is a perfect setup for this case to be taken by the US Supreme Court, where I am confident it will be reversed. This issue is the Roe v Wade of the current generation, and I sincerely doubt the Court has the stomach for preempting the policy judgments of the states on such a contentious matter, knowing the lingering harm it caused by that ruling.”
Aw, boo boos. The fact that this is the first time a federal appeals court has “gotten it” is absolutely irrelevant. That’s kind of how courts work. It took a “first time” and a “never before” to desegregate our schools, to give women reproductive freedom, and a host of other things that are now simply understood as part of what it means to be an American.
The last sentence of this is going up on my wall, Evan. Beautifully put.
Brian Brown (et al) remain pompous twits. “Constitutional scholar,” forsooth. Meaning he once read about it somewhere?
Feh.
“This issue is the Roe v Wade of the current generation…”
Yeah, and we all know how well THAT went for your type.
Let’s just modify Eastman’s words a bit:
“Never before has a federal appeals court – or any federal court for that matter – found a right to mixed-race marriage under the US Constitution. Today’s ruling is a perfect setup for this case to be taken by the US Supreme Court, where I am confident it will be reversed. I sincerely doubt the Court has the stomach for preempting the policy judgments of the states on such a contentious matter, knowing the lingering harm it caused by that ruling.”
Man it must suck to be on the wrong side of history.
Notice how Eastman’s rant is composed with an eye on NOM’s donors, not with an eye on any actual constitutional argument. NOM’s leaders are w****s for hate, milking the bigotry-cow (sorry, Maggot Gagginwhore) for as long as the bigotry-cow is there to be milked. Sooner or later, equality will be the law of the land, and the bigotry-cow’s milk will be discarded as the rancid unconstitutional puke it is.
it’s plain to see that most of the Professional Anti-Gay groups wrote their press-releases weeks ago, as I’ve yet to see anyone who actually addresses the content of the decision —in fact, most of them blatantly get it wrong! Eastman refers to the court “finding a right to gay marriage” something the actual decision text negates.
Like I keep saying all along “in the long run religion will loose. They always do…just look at history tells the story so.” Playing on lies and someones emotions never wins in the long run but LOGIC does…not religion!
@Scott Rose, your posts often crack me up (Maggot Gagginwhore) ROFL!
This is true.. really until it recognized under federal law, what does this mean?
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Actually Wyocowboy, I have to disagree with you a bit. Religion rarely loses, it just adapts and accommodates to the social & political realities on the ground. You can bet christians will eventually come to grudgingly tolerate gay marriage one day just like they have come to ignore divorce, just like they came to accept people of other races, just like they came to accept women’s rights to vote, just like they came to accept loaning money at interest, etc., etc, etc..
Fundagelicals should look at the evolution of christianity over time: a marvelous analogy to the Darwinian concept of natural selection. Ironic isn’t it?