Arguments scheduled on claims 'gay weddings' provided in U.S. Constitution


By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
SAN FRANCISCO - AUGUST 04: Members of the group The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence attend a rally to celebrate the ruling to overturn Proposition 8 August 4, 2010 in San Francisco, California. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker announced his ruling to overturn Proposition 8 finding it unconstitutional. The voter approved measure denies same-sex couples the right to marry in the State of California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who in a few days will hear arguments over Proposition 8, the decision by California voters to define in their state constitution the definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman, have been picked, and their records of activism are alarming those who support traditional marriage.
"It doesn't look good for the Prop 8 federal court appeal in San Francisco on Dec. 6," wrote Randy Thomasson, chief of the SaveCalifornia.com Campaign for Children and Families on his own blog.
"The 'randomly chosen' three-judge panel of the infamously liberal 9th Circuit was announced Monday … Let me tell you about Stephen Reinhardt, the ultimate judicial activist: In 2009, he wrote an opinion calling the federal Defense of Marriage Act 'unconstitutional' – despite the U.S. Constitution being silent on marriage and homosexuality. In 2007, Reinhardt ruled that partial-birth abortions are a constitutional guarantee. And in 2005, in a sex survey dispute, he ruled parents of elementary-age children in public schools give up any moral objections to their child’s education," Thomasson wrote.
The judges' names came from the Scotusblog.com, which said the panel will be Reinhardt, Michael Daly Hawkins and N. Randy Smith.
"In the last two decades, Reinhardt has repeatedly ruled against the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance. Also, in 1996, he authored an opinion claiming that physician-assisted suicide was somehow 'constitutional,'" Thomasson wrote.
The second judge, Thomasson said, has described himself as a "liberal on social questions."
"The third judge on the Dec. 6 panel is a likely constitutionalist. Idaho-based Judge Norman Randy Smith is one of the court's newest members and a Republican appointee of former President George W. Bush," Thomasson said.
"The only practical hope I have is that Reinhardt is the most overturned judge in the United States. The fact that he's on this panel could paint a big bull's-eye on him for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who, while being pro-homosexuality, is also mostly pro-law-and-order," he said.
SAN FRANCISCO - AUGUST 12: Opponents of same-sex hold signs outside of San Francisco city hall after a decision to lift a stay on same-sex marriages was announced August 12, 2010 in San Francisco, California. California Supreme court Judge Vaughn Walker lifted a stay on same-sex marriages in California just over one week after his ruling that Prop 8 was unconstitutional. Marriages will be allowed to resume on August 18. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The arguments for same-sex "marriage" have been white-hot in several campaigns recently in the U.S., including that 2008 vote in California where voters approved Proposition 8, a constitutional definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman only.
The results overturned a state Supreme Court decision there that had created same-sex "marriage" only months before, and were, in turn, overturned by a federal judge, a homosexual who concluded that such "rights" were embedded in the U.S. Constitution.
It was in September when U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, an open homosexual, overruled more than seven million voters to banish Proposition 8, setting up an appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
His 136-page ruling said, "Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples."
Walker also wrote:
That argument, in fact, is being made now in a court case in Canada.
In one such state, Iowa, voters responded last month by voting to fire three of the seven state Supreme Court justices who imposed homosexual "marriage." The remaining justices were not up for a vote at this time.
Now those who campaigned for voters to reject Marsha Ternus, David Baker and Michael Streit say they are hoping that the message will reverberate across the country and other judges will begin reining in their activism.
"The people have spoken. Time for the elitist judges to understand there is a constitution and that government is owned by the people," wrote Dennis S. in a forum at the Topix.com website.
Pastor Cary Gordon of Cornerstorne World Outreach in Sioux City was one of the pastors who coordinated a letter to churches asking them to speak out against homosexual "marriage."
He told WND that the letter reminded pastors of their moral obligation to cry out against evil and address arrogance and injustice in the courts.

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