Saturday, December 21, 2013

And from the peanut gallery…

From this 4Utah.com article:

Gayle Ruzicka:

Marriage is sacred. It's between a man and a woman and anything other than that violates God’s law and it’s immoral,
‘activist judge.’
Marriage is a state issue. This is not a federal issue. So a federal judge does not have the right to tell Utah what we are going to do with our marriage laws,
Blaming the guy who took over for Utah Attorney John Swallow when he resigned a couple weeks ago: “They should've been prepared with their stay, with their appeal ready to go so it could've been stopped immediately instead of waiting now over the weekend while they continue to perform these same sex marriages,
I think it'll be quite a battle this will continue and go all the way to the Supreme Court,

And even my favorite local teabagger, Mia Love, weighed in:

unacceptable
As a President Obama appointee, Judge Shelby used his position on the federal bench to override the will of Utah's voters..."

Yeah, you’re right.  It’s not the Federal Courts’ job to decide if states are violating the U.S. Constitution.  Their job is to, uh, hmmm, I guess I just don’t know what their job is.

And even if it was, don’t state laws outrank the U.S. Constitution?  After all, 66% of the people of Utah voted for Amendment 3, shouldn’t that negate any Federal constitutional rights?  Didn’t the Civil War make the definitive decision regarding States’ Rights?

I do agree with Gayle’s last comment.  The Great State of Utah is always willing to squander tax money on windmill fights.