D**S 发帖数: 24887 | 1 http://news.yahoo.com/michigan-39-gay-marriage-ban-going-trial-
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan's nearly decade-old ban on gay marriage is going to
trial Tuesday, with two weeks set aside for testimony from experts about
whether there's a legitimate state interest in restricting marriage to a man
and a woman.
Same-sex couples poised for a favorable ruling last fall had lined up for
marriage licenses across Michigan, only to be stunned when U.S. District
Judge Bernard Friedman said he wanted to hold a trial. Since then, judges in
Utah, Oklahoma and Virginia have struck down bans on gay marriage. At least
17 states and the District of Columbia now allow it.
In Michigan, two Detroit-area nurses are challenging the state's ban, which
was approved by 59 percent of voters in 2004. They sued in 2012 to try to
overturn a law that bars them from adopting each other's children, but the
case was expanded at Friedman's invitation to include same-sex marriage.
"If marriage is a fundamental right, then logic and emerging Supreme Court
precedent dictate that the legitimacy of two adults' love for one another is
the same in the eyes of the law regardless of sexual orientation,"
attorneys for April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse said in a court filing last fall.
They argue that Michigan's constitutional amendment violates the U.S.
Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, which forbids states from treating
people differently under the law.
The state attorney general's office, meanwhile, is defending the 2004
election result.
"Their attempt to circumvent the legislative process and disrupt the will of
the people of the state of Michigan must be rejected," the state said.
On Monday, more than 30 pastors from Baptist churches and conservative
Christian congregations around Michigan held a news conference to declare
their support for the ban. They said family stability and the Bible demand
marriage only between a man and a woman.
"The fight is on," said the Rev. Roland Caldwell of Burnette Inspirational
Ministries in Detroit. "Don't tell me I can go to the polls and then the
next day tell me I don't know what I'm doing."
One of the state's key witnesses will be Mark Regnerus, a sociologist at the
University of Texas. In 2012, he published a study in an academic journal,
saying young adults with a parent who had a same-sex relationship were more
likely to experience unemployment and other social woes. He later
acknowledged that his study didn't look at children raised by stable same-
sex couples.
Another witness is scholar Sherif Girgis, author of a 2012 book, "What Is
Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense." Attorneys for DeBoer and Rowse are
asking the judge to block their testimony as irrelevant.
Friedman recently said "it doesn't look good" for Girgis, but he won't make
a decision on any witnesses until they're called at trial. | D**S 发帖数: 24887 | 2 一点背景信息:密西根州是目前同性婚姻尚未合法化的所有州里民调显示支持同性婚姻
合法化最高的州。支持率在55%+的样子。但是州长是共和党人,州两院也被共和党控制
。 | k*****e 发帖数: 1235 | 3 要么公投,要么司法,两个都有胜算。
州长和两院也就只能控制立法而已。
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】 : 一点背景信息:密西根州是目前同性婚姻尚未合法化的所有州里民调显示支持同性婚姻 : 合法化最高的州。支持率在55%+的样子。但是州长是共和党人,州两院也被共和党控制 : 。
| D**S 发帖数: 24887 | 4 我只是在想,如果州长/州议会是民主党控制,应该密西根也已经批准同婚合法了。
【在 k*****e 的大作中提到】 : 要么公投,要么司法,两个都有胜算。 : 州长和两院也就只能控制立法而已。
| D**S 发帖数: 24887 | 5 http://news.yahoo.com/michigan-39-gay-marriage-ban-going-trial-
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan's nearly decade-old ban on gay marriage is going to
trial Tuesday, with two weeks set aside for testimony from experts about
whether there's a legitimate state interest in restricting marriage to a man
and a woman.
Same-sex couples poised for a favorable ruling last fall had lined up for
marriage licenses across Michigan, only to be stunned when U.S. District
Judge Bernard Friedman said he wanted to hold a trial. Since then, judges in
Utah, Oklahoma and Virginia have struck down bans on gay marriage. At least
17 states and the District of Columbia now allow it.
In Michigan, two Detroit-area nurses are challenging the state's ban, which
was approved by 59 percent of voters in 2004. They sued in 2012 to try to
overturn a law that bars them from adopting each other's children, but the
case was expanded at Friedman's invitation to include same-sex marriage.
"If marriage is a fundamental right, then logic and emerging Supreme Court
precedent dictate that the legitimacy of two adults' love for one another is
the same in the eyes of the law regardless of sexual orientation,"
attorneys for April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse said in a court filing last fall.
They argue that Michigan's constitutional amendment violates the U.S.
Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, which forbids states from treating
people differently under the law.
The state attorney general's office, meanwhile, is defending the 2004
election result.
"Their attempt to circumvent the legislative process and disrupt the will of
the people of the state of Michigan must be rejected," the state said.
On Monday, more than 30 pastors from Baptist churches and conservative
Christian congregations around Michigan held a news conference to declare
their support for the ban. They said family stability and the Bible demand
marriage only between a man and a woman.
"The fight is on," said the Rev. Roland Caldwell of Burnette Inspirational
Ministries in Detroit. "Don't tell me I can go to the polls and then the
next day tell me I don't know what I'm doing."
One of the state's key witnesses will be Mark Regnerus, a sociologist at the
University of Texas. In 2012, he published a study in an academic journal,
saying young adults with a parent who had a same-sex relationship were more
likely to experience unemployment and other social woes. He later
acknowledged that his study didn't look at children raised by stable same-
sex couples.
Another witness is scholar Sherif Girgis, author of a 2012 book, "What Is
Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense." Attorneys for DeBoer and Rowse are
asking the judge to block their testimony as irrelevant.
Friedman recently said "it doesn't look good" for Girgis, but he won't make
a decision on any witnesses until they're called at trial. | D**S 发帖数: 24887 | 6 一点背景信息:密西根州是目前同性婚姻尚未合法化的所有州里民调显示支持同性婚姻
合法化最高的州。支持率在55%+的样子。但是州长是共和党人,州两院也被共和党控制
。 | k*****e 发帖数: 1235 | 7 要么公投,要么司法,两个都有胜算。
州长和两院也就只能控制立法而已。
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】 : 一点背景信息:密西根州是目前同性婚姻尚未合法化的所有州里民调显示支持同性婚姻 : 合法化最高的州。支持率在55%+的样子。但是州长是共和党人,州两院也被共和党控制 : 。
| D**S 发帖数: 24887 | 8 我只是在想,如果州长/州议会是民主党控制,应该密西根也已经批准同婚合法了。
【在 k*****e 的大作中提到】 : 要么公投,要么司法,两个都有胜算。 : 州长和两院也就只能控制立法而已。
| X*******H 发帖数: 720 | 9 看了下
Mark Regnerus的paper,
How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex
relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study
conservatives尽管传他做证人吧,应该很容易对付。 |
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