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Gay marriage in Utah put on hold

just found this:

(Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday temporarily blocked an appeals court ruling that struck down Idaho's gay marriage ban.

The brief order issued by the court said that gay marriage supporters should file a response to the state's emergency request by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday. The court will then decide whether to issue a more permanent stay. In the meantime, gay marriages in Idaho will not be able to proceed.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/08/us-usa-court-gaymarriage-idUSKCN0HX1GL20141008

So does this only apply to the Idaho ban? It's not clear to me...
 
Edgewriter said:
Protests, lawsuits, it's how they stay relevant. There has to be a big bad holding them down and it will be those churches that refuse to marry them.
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Protests require anger by a sizable segment of the populace, or they fizzle. When activists can't tap into people's anger, because the conditions that caused the anger have diminished, they go on to other things. The whole narrative built around "activists stirring things up" seems like a self-defense mechanism, allowing you to downplay the problems people face, the real pain they are in.

Lawsuit require some legal basis.

Edgewriter said:
I would hope that the first amendment would be adequate protection, but when people start calling a refusal to perform gay marriages discrimination and get public opinion behind them, things happen.
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The LDS church may indeed change policy in response to public pressure or outcry, but not because of a lawsuit.
 
One Brow said:
Such a case would be laughed out of court. To this day, no interracial couple has been able to sue to use a religious building, and it won't happen with gay couples, either.

Now, there may be suits regarding land/buildings owned by religious groups, but available for public use. In the law, these are very different things from religious buildings. Your temples will be safe havens for bigotry.
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As is your own mind. Very distateful and shameful comment One Brow.
 
Stoked said:
That is how I am reading it. Idaho only. Leads me to wonder if there is something specific about the Idaho case that the Justice wants to review. Wonder what he sees...
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the original ruling only applied to Nevada and Idaho and apparently Idaho's was the only appeal filed at this point

The order came minutes after Idaho on Wednesday filed an emergency request for an immediate stay. The state's request said that without a stay, state and county officials would have been required to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples at 10 a.m. EDT.

Kennedy's order requested a response from the plaintiffs involved in Idaho's gay marriage lawsuit by the end of day Thursday.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared gay marriage legal in Idaho and Nevada on Tuesday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage in 30 other states.
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LINK
 
maybe on Idaho's part this is simply a way to request for more time to get updated language on their forms or something?

we can only hope...

:-)
 
Stoked said:
As is your own mind. Very distateful and shameful comment One Brow.
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The truth is often distasteful and shameful to those who would prefer it otherwise. Denying gay marriages in temples, churches, cathedrals, etc., is institutionalized bigotry, and having a religious source does not alter that. Bigotry inspired by religious beliefs is still bigotry.
 
One Brow said:
The truth is often distasteful and shameful to those who would prefer it otherwise. Denying gay marriages in temples, churches, cathedrals, etc., is institutionalized bigotry, and having a religious source does not alter that. Bigotry inspired by religious beliefs is still bigotry.
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Passing your opinion off as truth does not make it so. No matter how much you wish it.

Keep on preaching your own form of bigotry. Cheers!
 
Stoked said:
Passing your opinion off as truth does not make it so. No matter how much you wish it.
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I agree. It's not my opinion that makes it bigotry, it's the differential treatment, which exists regardless of the opinions either of us hold.

Stoked said:
Keep on preaching your own form of bigotry. Cheers!
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What, no rubber/glue mention? Bring out the hard ammo!
 
One Brow said:
I agree. It's not my opinion that makes it bigotry, it's the differential treatment, which exists regardless of the opinions either of us hold.



What, no rubber/glue mention? Bring out the hard ammo!
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Your own form of hate isn't worth anything more.
 
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