9th Circuit Court ruling expected to overturn Alaska's same-sex marriage ban.

[Blue_In_AK]

http://www.adn.com/article/20141007/9th-circuit-court-ruling-expected-overturn-alaskas-same-sex-marriage-ban

A ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down same-sex marriage bans in Nevada and Idaho Tuesday, a decision that could overturn a similar ban in Alaska.

“There’s no meaningful difference on the bans decided by the 9th Circuit and the one in Alaska,” said Peter Renn, staff attorney for LAMBDA Legal, an LGBT legal association that has closely followed the 9th Circuit Court cases.

“When the constitutionality of the (Alaska) ban is tested in court, it’s dead on arrival,” he said.

The opinion, issued by a three-member panel of judged based in San Francisco, found that same-sex marriage bans undermine equal protection and due process rights afforded to individuals under the U.S. Constitution. The ruling comes a day after the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear appeals in several other states, thereby allowing same-sex marriage bans in those states to remain overturned.

The 9th Circuit Court oversees nine Western states, including Alaska. Alaska was one of the first states to explicitly ban same-sex marriage, with voters approving a constitutional amendment in 1998 that defined marriage as only between one man and one woman.

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This is outstanding news. Alaska has some of the most phobic of the right-wing looney religious homophobes in positions of power, and it will be deeply satisfying to watch their heads explode.

[shenmue]

1. Sarah Palin will pass out

[Wounded Bear]

3. Is she conscious to begin with?

[customerserviceguy]

4. Excellent question!

[DreamGypsy]

5. At last report, Palin was seen...

...swimming across the Bering Strait, headed for the Chukchi Peninsula, wearing a rubber Vladimir Putin mask and bathing cap.

Reported by the Knee Jerk Times.

[NV Whino]

2. Get your camera over to Wasilla

And capture the fireworks.