GOP leaders: Lawmakers should have final say on gay unions

Thursday, January 5, 2006 · Last updated 6:34 p.m. PT

GOP leaders: Lawmakers should have final say on gay unions

By MIKE BAKER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Lawmakers, not the state Supreme Court, should have the last word on Washington's gay marriage ban, top Republican legislators said Thursday.

"We believe that the courts don't have the right to go in and change law that the Legislature has passed," said Rep. Mike Armstrong, R-Wenatchee.

The court is considering a closely watched challenge of the state's 1998 gay marriage ban, and could overturn the legislation.

But if justices do void the law, they should leave any new remedies to the Legislature, House and Senate GOP leaders said at a meeting unveiling their 2006 legislative agenda.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Gay_Marriage_GOP.html

Anyone who's gay and republican loves the closet life I guess.

:eyes:

you know us gay folk can't think rationally about our own lives.

You know, the whole Constitutional thing? 14th Amendment? Full faith and credit?

Idiot!

that is one insane view. really, it turns on its head the entire system that has ensured their nations survival for two hundred years. this is such a clear indicator of just how bad things have become.

...wanted to have the final say on segregation?

I don't think so...

Get this fucking religious crap out of other people's personal lives. It's none of anybody elses fucking business, especially the government's, who someone chooses for their life partner.

Is to protect the rights of the oppressed minority. Hell, if it wasn't for the courts, we would still be having the "separate but equal" crap of the civil rights era.

It's the court's place to be sure that laws that are passed don't go against the Constitution.