[Vision2020] Otter seeks full panel review of gay marriage ruling

Janesta janesta at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 08:22:00 PDT 2014


Butch needs to give it a rest.

The Hitching Post is a private business and should have the freedom and
right to serve whomever they want. There is a BOOMING business in Arizona
for "clearing houses" for business which same gender friendly. Perhaps
someone should start one in Coeur d' Alene

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> Courtesy of today's (October 22, 2014) Spokesman-Review.
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> Otter seeks full panel review of gay marriage ruling
>
> BOISE – Idaho Gov. Butch Otter wants a larger group of judges to
> reconsider the recent decision that overturned the state’s ban on same-sex
> marriage. “I will continue defending Idahoans’ self-determination and the
> will of Idaho voters who decided that traditional marriage is a core
> principle of our society,” Otter said.
>
> The governor on Tuesday announced that he would file a petition seeking a
> review at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by an 11-judge panel. A
> three-judge panel made the earlier decision ruling that Idaho’s ban on
> same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Otter and Idaho Attorney General
> Lawrence Wasden earlier requested that the 9th Circuit assign a full
> 11-judge panel to hear Idaho’s case, rather than a three-judge panel. That
> request was denied. Wasden didn’t join with Otter in Tuesday’s petition.
>
> However, his spokesman, Todd Dvorak, said Wasden plans to file an appeal
> to the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming weeks.
>
> Deborah Ferguson, attorney for the four Idaho couples who successfully
> sued to overturn Idaho’s same-sex marriage ban, said, “If necessary, we
> will continue to defend the District Court and 9th Circuit decision.”
>
> Otter, in a news release, warned of “increased religious strife” because
> “unaccountable judges,” not the “democratic process,” were making the call
> on gay marriage.
>
> “One of the key arguments against the Idaho Constitution’s defense of
> traditional marriage has been that redefining it to include same-sex
> couples would not harm anyone.  But the Hitching Post example shows the
> fallacy of that position,” he said.
>
> The Hitching Post wedding chapel in Coeur d’Alene has filed a federal
> lawsuit against the city of Coeur d’Alene, saying the city’s
> anti-discrimination ordinance would force its owners to perform marriages
> that they object to on religious grounds. That prompted a fundamentalist
> Christian group in Mississippi to claim that the city of Coeur d’Alene has
> threatened to arrest the two ordained ministers who own the chapel – but
> there was no such threat.
>
> The city has asked that the lawsuit be withdrawn; the chapel recently
> filed to become a religious corporation, which would exempt it from the
> city ordinance.
>
> Otter is in the midst of campaigning for a third term; his two leading
> opponents, Democrat A.J. Balukoff and Libertarian John Bujak, oppose
> continuing Idaho’s court fight against same-sex marriage, which became
> legal in Idaho last week.
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> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
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>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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