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Originally Posted by MsMerrick

Equality actually being held to mean.. Oh yeah..Equal ! What a concept
Thank you Founding Peeps, and all those that created our Constitution

Been thinking about that perhaps the fact that one of the lawyers arguing the case is a conservative (the Bush rep for Bush v. Gore) might be advantageous when this gets to the federal SC. He ought to know how to frame things in ways that all the conservative justices can understand.. actually hear. So, even Alieto and Scalia might be able to make the jump to what the framers did mean! And those that wrote the Bill of Rights! A little legal strategy to consider. Would love to hear from any lawyers here that have something to say about this.

Hummm.... this probably won't reach the SC for a couple of years (and all the appeals will happen in the interim)... My guess is that another SC nomination will come up within this time frame. OK, so, it is extremely important that Obama is a two-term president! Not that his appointments have been far left or progressive thus far, but, I really would not want a Republican making the appointment if another vacancy arises prior to the end of Obama's current term! Especially since that next vacancy may very well be Ruth Bader-Ginsberg.

Just thinking’…. projecting and being hopeful!

I am bummed with the stay imposed, however. It would have been better for more couples to just be able to marry now, perhaps adding to the 18000 folks in CA that were able to retain legal marriages after the … Hummm… second appellate decision post Prop 8 passage. I just feel that the more same-sex marriages recognized as legal goes to the equality position more deeply in terms of the 14th Amendment that this decision will rise or fall on. But, I may be totally wrong in this thinking.