NYT Begs Supreme Court: Stop Harming Gay Families, Decide Marriage Equality.

[William769]

As important as the federal appeals court ruling was on Thursday declaring same-sex marriage bans in two states to be unconstitutional, the clarity and blunt reasoning behind the decision was equally momentous.

Writing for a unanimous three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Judge Richard Posner put the case for equality starkly. “Homosexuals are among the most stigmatized, misunderstood, and discriminated-against minorities,” he wrote. Denying them the freedom to marry imposes “continuing pain,” he said, and claims that allowing same-sex marriage would harm heterosexual unions or children, or other state interests, were “totally implausible.”

“Our pair of cases is rich in detail but ultimately straightforward to decide,” Judge Posner wrote in the decision striking down bans in Wisconsin and Indiana.

“The challenged laws discriminate against a minority defined by an immutable characteristic, and the only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction — that same-sex couples and their children don’t need marriage because same-sex couples can’t produce children, intended or unintended — is so full of holes that it cannot be taken seriously.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/opinion/a-blunt-defense-of-marriage-equality.html?ref=opinion&_r=1

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. And the New York Times no less!

[RKP5637]

2. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[sheshe2]

3. I read some of Judge Richard Posner's ruling

here:

http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2014/D09-04/C:14-2526:J osner:aut:T:fnOp:N:1412339:S:0

He sure did put the case for equality starkly. Well done sir.

Sadly I could not copy and paste excerpts.

Yes, it's time for this to go to SCOTUS and finish this once and for all.

Thanks William

[Cha]

4. Great OP from the NYT.. Mahalo William!