Steve Young's family up against Mormon church on Prop. 8

[saden1]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

The only place I feel that the gay movement is overextending is showing 2nd graders (or some very young group of children) a book called the prince and the prince (as opposed to the prince and the princess). However it's kind of funny how it ended up uniting two groups of biggots to supress the rights of another group of people.

I can't even think of a fair way to not allow gay marriage. The closest thing is people might abuse it to get tax breaks and maybe take advantage of the rule in which you can't testify about what a spouse told you. However thats a huge reach and you can do the same thing with straight couples.

I'm tired of the conservative movement and one of the things that make me jump for joy is the fact that the Supreme Court Justices will probably be more on the liberal side and hopefully undo the damage of the uptight neocon judges. Hopefully the liberals don't let me down this time.

Alito, Thomas, Roberts aren't going anywhere any time soon and if Scalia (72) and Kennedy (72) have good genes they'll be around for a while. Thankfully Obama will get to replace all the non-conservative judges.

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by saden1

Alito, Thomas, Roberts aren't going anywhere any time soon and if Scalia (72) and Kennedy (72) have good genes they'll be around for a while. Thankfully Obama will get to replace all the non-conservative judges.

Justice Kennedy will occasionally lean towards the libertarian/socially liberal side, as he did with Lawrence v. Texas back in 2003 which struck down state laws prohibiting certain sex acts between consenting adults.

But he also sided with the majority in the dreadful Kelo v. New London, Connecticut ruling, which allowed localities to use eminent domain for virtually any purpose they see fit. So he's truly the wildcard in any Supreme Court case.