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Federal Judge Strikes Down Alaska Gay Marriage Ban

Federal Judge Strikes Down Alaska Gay Marriage Ban
A federal judge struck down Alaska’s ban on same-sex marriage Sunday evening.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska ruled that the state’s ban was unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess wrote that any relationship between the ban and government interests was “either nonexistent or purely speculative.”

“Alaska’s same-sex marriage laws are a prime example of how ‘the varying treatment of different groups or persons is so unrelated to the achievement of any combination of legitimate purposes that we can only conclude that the legislature’s actions were irrational,’” Burgess wrote, citing an earlier court ruling.

“Refusing the rights and responsibilities afforded by legal marriage sends the public a government-sponsored message that same-sex couples and their familial relationships do not warrant the status, benefits, and dignity given to couples of the opposite sex,” the Alaskan court decision continued.

Defendants in the case, who include Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) and state Attorney General Michael Geraghty (R), will have the option of appealing to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, though that court has already struck down similar bans in Idaho and Nevada.

When Alaska voters passed the amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as between a man and a woman in 1998, it was the first of its kind.

This story is developing. Check back for updates.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/12/gay-marriage-alaska_n_5974232.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Alaska's Ban on Gay Marriage

Federal Judge Strikes Down Alaska's Ban on Gay Marriage

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A federal judge has ruled that Alaska’s same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, Alaska Dispatch News reports:

Judge Timothy Burgess wrote in a summary judgment that Alaska’s “refusal to recognize same-sex marriages lawfully entered in other states is unconstitutional as a deprivation of basic due process and equal protection principles under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”

The lawsuit was filed in Anchorage in May.

The ruling takes effect immediately.

Read the full ruling BELOW:

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Andy Towle

www.towleroad.com/2014/10/federal-judge-strikes-down-alaskas-ban-on-gay-marriage.html

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Mike Huckabee Is 'Utterly Disgusted' With Republicans, Calls on GOP to 'Grow a Spine' And Oppose Gay Marriage: VIDEO

Mike Huckabee Is 'Utterly Disgusted' With Republicans, Calls on GOP to 'Grow a Spine' And Oppose Gay Marriage: VIDEO

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He’s not letting the GOP’s tepid response to the SCOTUS gay marriage decision go just yet.

Said Huckabee on his Fox News program Saturday:

“I’m utterly disgusted with fellow Republicans who want to walk away from the issue of judicial supremacy just because it’s politically volatile. Here’s my advice – grow a spine! Show a modicum of knowledge about the way we govern ourselves. And lead, follow, or get the heck out of the way.”

The cry of “judicial supremacy,” coming from the same guy who said it was a “good day for freedom” when the Supreme Court gave corporations more religious freedom than taxpayers. 

Watch Huckabee’s rant, AFTER THE JUMP…

[via Media Matters for America]


Kyler Geoffroy

www.towleroad.com/2014/10/mike-huckabee-is-utterly-disgusted-with-republicans-calls-on-gop-to-grow-a-spine-and-oppose-gay-marr.html

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