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 states 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 Floridas 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/
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)msongs
(67,199 posts)catbyte
(34,174 posts)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.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)Fucking ghouls.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)Is it an old picture, or is that bastion for the 1%'rs setting up to run in 2016?