Court watch: California gay marriage ruling…Upholds SF licensing scheme, 4-3 decision in a favor of a “fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship”

Recent events have added weight to the already overweight left swinging pendulum

Some new decisions that added momentum to the left surging American Pendulum have just been forced upon the American people. Adding Obama or Clinton to the top spot as our American leader will increase the weight and speed of that pendulum. The Pit cannot be far behind.

California Supreme Court overrules voters:

From Hugh Hewitt,

The question we must address is whether, under these circumstances, the failure to designate the official relationship of same-sex couples as marriage violates the California Constitution.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

The Damage Done By Courts

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 1:49 PM Today’s decision by the California Supreme Court is yet another judicial putsch. It is appalling. Incredibly, a feverish will to power on the part of small numbers of judges is rapidly eroding a citizen’s standing as the ultimate lawgiver. Courts unbound by any sense of limits, by any sense of restraint, threaten the basic understanding that has long undergirded the Republic –that the laws proceed from the open consent of the people, and that the ultimate laws, the federal and state constitutions, are documents of fixed meaning and structure, not merely window dressing on the rule of judicial elites or empty phrases waiting for elites to fill them with meaning.

Today’s ruling framed the question before the California Supreme Court this way:

This stuff keeps getting more unbelievable all the time:

Michelle Malkin Writes:

By Michelle Malkin • May 15, 2008 12:11 PM

A California Supreme Court decision on San Francisco’s gay marriage licenses is expected within the hour.

Gay marriage supporters are prepared to hold a “celebration of love.” Social conservatives are prepared to go to the ballot box: Malkin Writes

If you don’t think this ruling will affect your church, then think a little more. Will your church be able to refuse to preform such a marriage? Will the next step be to make it against the law to refuse gays as leadership in your church or as staff in your church office…..

We must not be complacent. California decisions always affect the national trend. We must be diligent.

Scroll Down to Read the California Supreme Court Ruling.

Watch out for the Crash of the Pendulum against the American Economy and your Freedoms.

The already heavy pendulum has been overweighted with the Polar Bear fiasco. Hold onto your pocket book, your car, your livelihood, your kids. We are in for a joyride of liberal controls and halting the American economy and the American Dream.

From Hugh Hewitt we can read about this newest Debacle:

Thursday, May 15, 2008

The Polar Bear Pincers On Productivity

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 10:54 AM Yesterday’s listing of the polar bear as “threatened” was accompanied by Secretary of the Interior Kempthorne’s assurances that the listing would not be allowed to be manipulated to regulate greenhouse gas emissions throughout the U.S.

This was false hope dressed up as “guidance.” The law is the law, and the Endangered Species Act is very specific about how federal actions that could harm a protected species are to be treated, and the criminal penalties for those who ignore the ESA’s commands. Very quickly the environmental activists served notice that they would be using the ESA to stop greenhouse gas emissions.

From USA Today’s coverage:

Kassie Siegel, a lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity, said the group does not accept Kempthorne’s view. The act requires federal agencies to take steps to reduce or eliminate those impacts on threatened species, she said. “There is no exemption for greenhouse gas emissions.”

If the government fails to address global warming, “we can and will go to court to enforce the law,” she said.

We are in trouble Folks!!!!!

Michelle Malkin:

Update: Here’s the ruling.

To the ballot box we go.

More from SFGate:

Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.

In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the “fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship.” The ruling is likely to flood county courthouses with applications from couples newly eligible to marry when it takes effect in 30 days.

But it could be overturned in November, when Californians are likely to vote on a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. Conservative religious organizations have submitted more than 1.1 million signatures on initiative petitions, and officials are working to determine if at least 694,354 of them are valid.

If the measure qualifies for the ballot and voters approve it, it will supersede today’s ruling. The initiative does not say whether it would apply retroactively to annul marriages performed before November, an omission that would wind up before the courts.

The legal case dates back to February 2004, when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered the city clerk to start issuing marriage licenses to couples regardless of their gender, saying he doubted the constitutionality of the state marriage law.

The state’s high court ordered a halt a month later, after nearly 4,000 same-sex weddings had been performed at San Francisco City Hall. The court annulled the marriages in August 2004, ruling that Newsom lacked authority to defy the state law. But it did not rule on the validity of the law itself and said it would await proceedings in lower courts.

Some of the couples immediately sued in Superior Court and were joined by the city of San Francisco, which said it had a stake in ensuring equality for its residents. The case that ultimately reached the state Supreme Court consolidated four suits, one by the city and three by 23 same-sex couples in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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