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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 12:04 AM Jun 2014

Florida attorney general defends marriage equality ban as cities fight back

Source: Reuters



By Reuters
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 17:45 EDT

TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) – The intensifying legal battle over gay marriage in Florida is placing state Republican leaders at odds with a growing chorus of local officials.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (pictured above, center) announced plans this week to defend the state’s gay marriage ban in two upcoming court cases, including a high-profile Miami hearing involving six same-sex couples. The move followed recent criticism of a brief she filed in yet another case, in which she argued that overturning the ban would “impose significant public harm.”


Yet Bondi and Florida Governor Rick Scott, both Republicans, have downplayed their personal views on gay marriage, even as they appeal to conservatives eager to keep Florida’s marriage laws intact.

“My job is not to write the law, but to defend it,” Bondi said in a statement earlier this month following outcry over her brief.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/25/florida-attorney-general-defends-marriage-equality-ban-as-cities-fight-back/

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Florida attorney general defends marriage equality ban as cities fight back (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
You mean like the harm interracial marriage caused, Ms. Bondi? sakabatou Jun 2014 #1
A losing battle. n/t PoliticAverse Jun 2014 #2
LDS spokesman giving advice on how to get prop 8 reinstated? nt msongs Jun 2014 #3
Man, I guess it's up to the courts to drag these baggers kicking & screaming into the catbyte Jun 2014 #4
Your time is soon up. geomon666 Jun 2014 #5
Not understanding why R$ is in the picture. :/ C Moon Jun 2014 #6
Methinks she would not be so committed to defending a law allowing gay marriage. tanyev Jun 2014 #7

catbyte

(34,174 posts)
4. Man, I guess it's up to the courts to drag these baggers kicking & screaming into the
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 01:37 AM
Jun 2014

21st Century. OMFG. How much more of our money will these bigots waste on these pointless crusades? Didn't the 10th Circuit (amongst all the others) ruling sink in? Here's a bumpersticker suggestion: "Today's Republican Party: Building a Bridge to the '50's--the 1850's". Or "Bigots 'R Us". I don't even use the term GOP anymore. There's nothing "grand" about them; they are only old. They are consistently on the wrong side of history on EVERY issue.

C Moon

(12,188 posts)
6. Not understanding why R$ is in the picture. :/
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 01:44 AM
Jun 2014

Is it an old picture, or is that bastion for the 1%'rs setting up to run in 2016?

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