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Federal Judge Rejects Calif. Marriage Definition
By Lawrence D. Jones|Christian Post Reporter

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge has ruled against California’s voter-approved marriage definition in a landmark decision that brings the gay marriage debate one step closer to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Nearly seven months after the battle over California’s Proposition 8 reached the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker determined that people of the same sex do have the right to marry and that the decision of the majority to define marriage as the union between a man and a woman violates that right.

"Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and lesbians," the judge wrote in the 136-page ruling released Wednesday.

"The evidence shows conclusively that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite sex couples," he added, effectively overturning Prop. 8.

With Walker’s ruling now out, the case will now head for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which both sides in the legal battle had vowed to file an appeal to if Wednesday’s ruling was not in their favor. Prop. 8 defenders will ask the appeals court to immediately stay Walker's order.

The case, which has been followed closely by people on both sides of the marriage debate, could lead to a precedent for whether gay marriage becomes legal nationwide and – as traditional marriage advocates say – whether the nation’s democratic principles will be upheld.

If California’s Proposition 8 is overturned, marriage laws in 45 states and the federal Defense of Marriage Act may ultimately be nullified, law experts say.

Prop. 8, which California voters passed in 2008, effectively defined marriage in the state’s constitution as the union of one man and one woman. The amendment was passed by 52 percent of California voters.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20 ... index.html

Do you ever feel like we are in the "Twilight Zone"?

Bro. Frank, it's all over AFA. They have sent out an alert for his impeachment.

JWayne wrote:Bro. Frank, it's all over AFA. They have sent out an alert for his impeachment.

Thanks Wayne, This guy has made a mockery of what God has established as marriage.

And God shall not be mocked!

Hey Frank this is Robbie. And I think we got the same headlines because this was like the number 1 story in Headlines.

Well I have lived in California for over 30 years. I now live in Illinois. If the rights that Gays can marry in Calif I don’t even want to tell anyone I lived in that state. If I do tell one I’ll tell them before California became Gay.

It is not a big shock to me however because San Francisco and Hollywood areas are gay capitals. But there are various parts of California that have Gay communities. San Diego County has one also. You know one time I lived in Orange County a Non Gay County. I have not seen any Gay communities in Orange County. But in Los Angeles which was next to our county had a bus stop with an advertisement of 2 Gay men.

This Gay stuff is making me sick. I don’t want to be around any Gay community. I don’t want to spend time with any Gay couple. Keep your “Sins” that’s right “Sins to yourself”

God tells us in Leviticus this is an abomination. What God has set in Law is set in stone. For those whom did this already it’s time to stop doing this.

Despite what man says God does not in any way whatsoever in the least support same sex relationships in living partners or couples. Not one scripture in the entire Bible God is ok with this.

Even in the New Testament all teachings are based on relationships only between a man and a woman.

For those who are worldly minded like Judge Walker does not follow the Laws of God but the Law of men.

And even when this amendment came to be it had nothing to do with Gay citizens. Most people thought marriage was between a man and a woman. Take a look at TV programs made in the 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s. Where did you see Homosexual approval on these things? When the sixties came the sex Revolution was born. But being Gay was still not the in thing privately one that practiced this did it in private.

Judge Walker has not stepped over the laws of men but of God Himself. And God is surprised. Surely not he knew this would happen one day. But it is not always going to be. Wait till Jesus returns. You’re not going to see Gay couples being raptured to Christ or one who say I am a Gay Christian. Practicing that is.

For one who resists this sin can be saved for we all have sinned Romans 3:23 for they have sinned and so have we. And hope is to all. But they who say Sin is righteous in God’s eyes is lying to the world what God can see clearly.

I do not support Gay marriage. I never will. This is California’s problem not mine. If that’s what they want they will get what they asked for. I like California as a state with lots of things to do but if this State becomes Gay I may not ever visit that state again.

Please know there are lots of heterosexual in Calif. Very many indeed. That’s why Gay marriage got banned. But because Calif does have a lot of Gays they put it back in Court. Everyone now is going to think California is the State of Homosexual as in Sodom and Gomorrah. Good ridden Calif I don’t need you. Trouble is now if Calif says yes other states may also become Gay ones. We’re going to be trapped as Jesus told us that lawlessness would abound. We are seeing lawlessness at work now.
I’m not in favor of anyone who supports this. Let it be how it used to be. If they want to do that let them do it in private. Don’t put this on our backs. We don’t need it.

I did a search on the judge being a homosexual and here is one of many on the issue...

Homosexual Judge Okays Same-sex Marriage
Written by Raven Clabough
Thursday, 05 August 2010 13:45

U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker on August 4 ruled against Proposition 8, a referendum passed by California voters in November 2008 that banned same-sex marriages in the state of California. According to the Judge, the ban violated the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians.

Exercising its rights under the Tenth Amendment, the state of California debated and voted on same-sex marriage and ultimately made its decision in a 52-48 decision in November 2008 banning same-sex marriage. The vote overturned a state Supreme Court ruling six months earlier that legalized homosexual marriage.

The law has been contested, however, by homosexuals in California who sought a judicial activist to succumb to their bidding.

On behalf of a gay couple in Southern California and a lesbian couple in Berkeley, a federal challenge was filed, with the couples represented by Solicitor General Ted Olson and David Boies.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/culture/family/4229-gay-judge-rules-in-favor-of-gay-marriage

I found no fact that he was going to be impeached but an article saying how it should be done which follows..

Time to impeach Judge Vaughn Walker
Contact your representative today and urge him to start impeachment proceedings

August 5, 2010

Yesterday (August 4), U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker single-handedly overturned California's Prop. 8, which elevated protection for one-man, one-woman marriage to its state constitution.

In doing so, he frustrated the express will of seven million Californians who went to the polls to shape their state's public policy on marriage.

Since marriage policy is not established anywhere in the federal Constitution, defining marriage, according to the 10th Amendment, is an issue reserved for the states. Judge Walker never should have accepted this case in the first place.

Under Judge Walker, it's no longer "We the People," it's "I the Judge."
http://www.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147497248

For Obama to tell the world that America is not a Christian nation is just the same as handing us over to Molech...... in his opinion which comes from a Muslim point of view.
If gays want to pretend that they can be wedded in Holy Matrimony, and our pastors forced to do so or else be fined and prosecuted, maybe we HAVE been handed over to Molech, the god of debauchery and child sacrifice..... In God We Trust? Which god???? The prudent listen to weather reports and prepare for the storm. The wicked have no understanding of what marriage represents.... Jesus and His Bride.