Court takes gay-marriage issue (Tennessee)
Tennessean ^ | 3/18/06 | SHEILA BURKE
Posted on 03/18/2006 2:17:48 PM PST by mathprof
The Tennessee Supreme Court will decide whether a proposed anti-gay marriage amendment to the Tennessee Constitution should be pulled from the November ballot. The decision follows last month's ruling by Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle, who ruled against the American Civil Liberties Union, clearing the way for voters to decide whether the state constitution should be amended to ban gay marriage. Lyle was not asked to decide the merits of gay marriage, only whether voters were given legally required notice about the amendment. The ACLU and a group of gay and lesbian plaintiffs have until April 4 to file their initial briefs to the state's highest court. The defendants, represented by the state attorney general's office and conservative groups against gay marriage, have 20 days to respond. Oral arguments are scheduled to be heard June 7. "We're pleased to have the opportunity to present our case to the Tennessee Supreme Court," said ACLU Executive Director Hedy Weinberg. The ACLU and gay and lesbian groups say the state provided 4½ months' notice of the amendment, not the six months state law requires. The state and others argue that wide media coverage provided the public plenty of notice. The decision to take the case should not be interpreted as a sign that the state's highest court plans to overturn the lower court's ruling and pull the proposal off the ballot, a lawyer representing a conservative rights organization fighting the ACLU said. "The court's reaching down to take the case makes sense in light of the time constraints, and I read nothing into that regarding the merits of the case," said Byron Babione of the Alliance Defense Fund. Same-sex marriages are illegal in Tennessee, but opponents want to strengthen that ban by amending the state constitution.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598873/posts1). To: mathprof
Sometimes it is best top be goverened by what is normal and natural. Natural is the key consideration. Sure, we can make it legal for chickens to marry zebras, but it wouldn't be natural. It's just as unnatural for a man to "marry" a man or a woman to "marry" a woman. If a person is so twiswted in their mind that their sex drive is opposite to billions of people who came before him or her, do you want his finger on the nuclear trigger? Or teaching your kid? Or living next door? They are not called sex perverts for nothing. How can I be so sure? There are some things I just know.
6 posted on 03/18/2006 2:55:59 PM PST by R.W.Ratikal
2). To: rbg81
No.......it's time for ALL conservatives, Christian or not, to say enough is enough, and put our values and morals back in place. Nobody cares what they do in the privacy of their own homes. But
Not in our schools
Not anywhere in front of our children
Not in our public squares or on our streets
Not in our government
Certainly not in marriage or family
People have rights, rights to freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of religion, and certainly the freedom to protect innocent children form predators who would pervert their minds and corrupt their morals. The damage done by those actions can damage children for a lifetime. We need to stop shying away from these amendments, and stop cowering behind the rock, called political correctness, where all the lies are hiding. We won't allow our kids to be perverted by porn and other forms of degenerative behavior, and we shouldn't this type either.
9 posted on 03/18/2006 5:15:55 PM PST by gidget7 (Get GLDSEN out of our schools!!)
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