Judge: 'It Doesn't Look Like The Sky Has Fallen In' Because Of Gay Marriage

[joeybee12]

CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal appeals judge hearing arguments about gay marriage bans in four states says "it doesn't look like the sky has fallen in" in other states that allow same-sex marriage.

Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey made the comment Wednesday in Cincinnati as she and two other judges on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals questioned lawyers on both sides during the biggest court session yet of federal legal battles over gay marriage. They were hearing cases from Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Another judge, Jeffrey Sutton, repeatedly asked whether trying to get the issue changed before the U.S. Supreme Court was the right course instead of waiting for popular change.

The judges didn't indicate when they would rule in the cases.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/06/gay-marriage-hearings_n_5656284.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Sort of takes the sting away from the comments from one of the other judges, Jeffrey "I'm An Asshat Appointed by a Squatter" Sutton.

[NuclearDem]

1. Filed under No Shit.

[conservaphobe]

2. The sky is bluer when more people are treated equally. nt

[PoliticAverse]

3. We did get a bunch of rainbows though. n/t

[merrily]

24. That's a bonus. You can see them more clearly when the sky is bluer.

[hifiguy]

4. It hasn't and it won't.

You'd have to be dumber than a stump to think otherwise.

[xchrom]

5. that's cause i haven't worn plaids and stripes together since that time in california.

just wait til i do.

[joeybee12]

6. Is that why you were banned from ever entering there again?

[xchrom]

8. YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BRING THAT UP IN PUBLIC!11 NT

[joeybee12]

9. NO CAPS!

Or I'll post photos of that heinous fashion crime of yours!

[xchrom]

10. GASP! Well, I never...nt

[joeybee12]

11. Never? I doubt it!

[hifiguy]

13. So that's what the "noodle incident" was!

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident

[intaglio]

7. But ... but

dogs and cats - living TOGETHER!!!1111!!!

[OnlinePoker]

12. I also notice the military hasn't collapsed since gay marriage was allowed there.

As with all civil rights battles, the reality is much tamer than the scare-mongering that goes up against it.

[merrily]

22. But the buggida buggida helps hate groups with fund-raising.

Hence, it's likely to continue.

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[blkmusclmachine]

14. Judge Sutton: the Constitutional Rights of Life, Liberty, & Pursuit of Happiness should be put up to

a vote at the ballot box. For minority groups, anyway.

[PDJane]

15. Marriage equality has been a fact in Canada since 2005.

You know, it hasn't changed much.....except that, in the big hotels, same sex couples are now given the Bridal Suite. Oh, yeah, and the pride day parade is pretty interesting. It's a day of good-natured hedonism, and only a few get all bent out of shape. I thought there was going to be a conflict at Yonge and Dundas. The religious bigots were out in full force! Mind, a young woman from Ryerson was gathering up all the tracts. Someone asked her what she was going to do with them. The answer was, "I have to make a project in paper maché!

[merrily]

23. Ditto Massachusetts, since 2004.

Only twisted minds conclude that people fighting bigots for the right to marry are a threat to the institution of marriage.

[shenmue]

16. My parents are still married

Just had their 45th anniversary. Who'd a thunk it!

[joeybee12]

17. Congrats to them!!!

[shenmue]

18. The gay robots haven't showed up yet to destroy them

[joeybee12]

19. That's only because they're tricky gay robots and are biding their time!

[shenmue]

20. I knew it

[merrily]

21. If it's a 14th amendment issue, you don't "wait for popular change."

That is the point of having a 14th amendment, Judge Sutton. (Duh)