Silhouette
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Never mind, Sil, who is maligantly motivated, mentally feeble, or just woefully ignorant as to the facts and the law.
Read Utah same-sex marriage proponents also want Supreme Court review | The Salt Lake Tribune for a good review of what is going on with Utah.
That's funny because when they announced that the European Convention on Human Rights found against gay marriage being some sort of "human right" here recently [a Decision that is binding on 49 countries], that same article mentioned how our Supreme Court had found that states have the right to thumbs up or down gay marriage:
http://www.usmessageboard.com/polit...urt-rules-gay-marriage-not-a-human-right.html
From the OP link there:
The highest human rights court in Europe shattered hopes that it would judicially impose same-sex marriage when it told a male to female transsexual and his wife that a civil union should be good enough for them.
European human rights law does not require countries to grant access to marriage to same-sex couples, according to a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in a case that tests the remote boundaries of possibility in law and fact....
...The European court was unequivocal. It not only said that European human rights law does not contemplate same-sex marriage, it said that civil unions are good enough for same-sex couples....
...The court confirmed that the protection of the traditional institution of marriage is a valid state interestimplicitly endorsing the view that relations between persons of the same sex are not identical to marriage between a man and a woman, and may be treated differently in law...
...The U.S. Supreme Court declined to say that marriage between persons of the same sex is a right under the U.S. Constitution or international law last year. In a case involving a law that prohibited the U.S. federal government from recognizing marriages between persons of the same sex, the Court ruled that individual states may decide whether or not to allow individuals of the same sex to marry each other.
Hmmm...it seems that 49 countries are thinking the same thing I am legally about gay marriage...
So the minority conclusions would be yours Jake, and not mine.