{"id":740,"date":"2004-03-29T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/29\/is-a-gay-marriage-ban-constitutional-in-california\/"},"modified":"2004-03-29T13:58:22","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T21:58:22","slug":"is-a-gay-marriage-ban-constitutional-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Is a gay marriage ban constitutional in California?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-court28mar28,1,3500992.story\">interesting <i>LA Times <\/i>article <\/a>describes the cases for and against the gay marriage ban in California. The big quesition: does the California Constitution forbid unequal treatment of LBGT couples?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Court may end up deciding more in deference to politics and power than in deference to the equal protection of the law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">Then there is a political element. Like the Massachusetts high court, the California Supreme Court has six Republicans and one Democrat. But members of the Massachusetts court are appointed for life. California&#8217;s justices must appear on the ballot every 12 years, and some legal scholars believe that requirement could make the justices more cautious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Massachusetts court is going to start taking a lot of hits,&#8221; Uelmen said. &#8220;It already has started&#8221; with President Bush, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it has a chilling effect when the president refers to arbitrary court decisions and comes close to saying &#8216;lunatic court decisions.&#8217; I think that will have a chilling effect on whether other courts would want to put themselves in this corner.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriagedebate.com\/mdblog.php\">Marriage Debate<\/a>.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=buy-floxin-online-overnight\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting LA Times article describes the cases for and against the gay marriage ban in California. The big quesition: does the California Constitution forbid unequal treatment of LBGT couples? Unfortunately, the Court may end up deciding more in deference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=740\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}