Supreme Court Chief Justice John G.
Roberts Jr. on Friday called for a response by Monday to a clerk's
request to stay an appeals court's ruling striking down Virginia's
ban on gay marriage.
Michelle B. McQuigg, clerk of Prince
William County's Circuit Court, turned to the Supreme Court after a
3-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond
denied her request to stay its ruling.
Without the Supreme Court's
intervention, gay and lesbian couples could start marrying in Virginia as early
as Thursday. The decision would also affect similar bans in West
Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
The high court set a Monday, August 18
deadline to respond to McQuigg's request.
McQuigg is represented by the Christian
conservative Alliance Defending Freedom.
This is just posturing bullshit, John Roberts is going to grant the stay.
What is the point of this dog and pony show?
It's apparent, the Supreme Court is just trying to buy more time for the US public to either accept gay marriage as inevitable or to see exactly how the public intends to vote this year.
If you don't think that a Republican sweep this November in both the House and the Senate won't sway their decision...think again.
I can see the conservatives on this court siding with state sovereignty, washing their hands of the whole issue of gay marriage...something they have already taken great care in not doing.
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