{"id":12790,"date":"2014-05-16T00:27:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12790"},"modified":"2014-05-16T00:34:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T07:34:44","slug":"courts-likely-to-overturn-an-oregon-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/16\/courts-likely-to-overturn-an-oregon-injustice\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts Likely to Overturn an Oregon Injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a rule, Oregon tends to lead the way for progressive values.  However, one area in which my state has lagged behind many others is in the right of people to marry based on love, not gender.  In 2004, Republicans got an Oregon Constitutional Amendment outlawing gay marriage on the ballot, and it passed.  It appears we are about to rectify that injustice.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0516gay-marriage\"U.S. District Judge Michael McShane on Wednesday rejected an attempt by an anti-gay marriage group to intervene in the lawsuit seeking to overturn Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

McShane's ruling raised expectations by gay marriage supporters that his next step will be to overturn the 2004 voter-approved constitutional amendment limiting marriage to one man and one woman.<\/p>\n

The judge's decision to reject an attempt by the National Organization for Marriage [pseudo-Christians delinked<\/em>] to intervene leaves all of the official parties in the case — including <\/strong>Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum<\/strong><\/a> — arguing that Oregon's prohibition violates the federal equal protection of rights of gay and lesbian couples seeking to marry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

"We feel very confident this is headed in the right direction," said David Fidanque, executive director of the Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union<\/a>, which is representing some of the plaintiffs in the case. He noted that 13 federal judges in a row — including one in Idaho on Tuesday — have now issued rulings granting additional legal status for gay marriages… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Oregonian<\/a>><\/p>\n

Oregon’ initiative process can be a great thing.  Oregon voters can change the law or amend the Oregon Constitution by ballot initiative.  However, it has problems that need to be addressed, such as the huge amounts of money Republicans spend on them.  Also, Republicans love to get ballot measures in off year and special elections that most voters ignore, so they can win with fewer votes.  In my opinion, ballot measures should only be included on ballots for major elections.<\/font><\/p>\n

I look forward to seeing this injustice overturned.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a rule, Oregon tends to lead the way for progressive values.  However, one area in which my state has lagged behind many others is in the right of people to marry based on love, not gender.  In 2004, Republicans got an Oregon Constitutional Amendment outlawing gay marriage on the ballot, and it passed.  It […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}