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

[Janesta]

*groaning.. soft laugh*

Hopefully, you all can read between my clearer than mud statement.

I am toddling off to fully wake up!

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Janesta <janesta at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 . . .
>>
>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
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