Kansas Gay-Straight Segregation Bill Passes

[SteveRogers]

So it hasn't actually passed the Senate yet, right?

And if it does pass, this is just Romer redux, no? The courts won't even have to invoke Windsor or create any new protections for discrimination based on sexual orientation to strike it down.

[SteveRogers]

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Difference is they packed the courts, so basically 99% of laws that doesn't conform to a lib worldview gets tossed now.

The UN observers were shocked to learn the US doesn't have a voter ID law.

When do you imagine that liberals packed the court, and what decisions do you attribute to that packing?

The first state-level gay marriage ban to be overturned by a federal court (California) was struck down by a Reagan appointee.  The judge who just struck down Kentucky's ban on recognizing out-of-state gay marriages was appointed by Bush Sr. A majority of Justices on the Supreme Court are republican appointees, and a Reagan appointee was the swing vote in Windsor that toppled the first domino in the chain that's about to lead to nation-wide legalization of gay marriage.

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Difference is they packed the courts, so basically 99% of laws that doesn't conform to a lib worldview gets tossed now.

The UN observers were shocked to learn the US doesn't have a voter ID law.

When do you imagine that liberals packed the court, and what decisions do you attribute to that packing?

The first state-level gay marriage ban to be overturned by a federal court (California) was struck down by a Reagan appointee.  The judge who just struck down Kentucky's ban on recognizing out-of-state gay marriages was appointed by Bush Sr. A majority of Justices on the Supreme Court are republican appointees, and a Reagan appointee was the swing vote in Windsor that toppled the first domino in the chain that's about to lead to nation-wide legalization of gay marriage.

Reagan also gave us Sandra Day "I heart Partial Birth Abortion" O'Connor.

Darn good president, but not the best appointer of judges.  W's judges  are probably the best in terms of real conservatism, minus Roberts as I said before.

So when did liberals pack the court?

[SteveRogers]

Now that SCOTUS has overturned VA's gay marriage ban, I think it's fairly safe to say that there aren't any gay marriage bans on the books in any state that could withstand a federal lawsuit.

Conservatives know this and are in full-blown panic mode throwing Jello at the wall indiscriminately and figuring maybe there's a small chance some will stick. At this rate, I'm waiting for a legislator in Oklahoma or Alabama to introduce a bill replicating Uganda's kill-the-gays law or Nigeria's mandatory jail time for gays.

SCOTUS hasn't overturned anything yet. A federal district court struck down Virginia's ban but stayed the decision pending appeal. It remains to be seen who will have standing to appeal. The two county clerks who defended it in trial might. If nobody has standing, then gay marriages will begin in Virginia very soon. That's a huge victory for sure, but we're still two years away from the big SCOTUS decision.

But your general point is right. The state-level bans are dropping like flies in the district courts, and it's only a matter of time before we get some broader Circuit Court rulings. Conservatives are in panic mode, and that is where the impetus for this ridiculous law came from.