The New Mexico Supreme Court yesterday held a hearing on marriage equality, specifically whether the law in New Mexico bans it. The court has stepped in to resolve the issue because a number of County clerks have started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The New Civil Rights Movement reports:
Arguments from the anti-gay side were predictably obtuse and irrelevant. The flawed and debunked anti-gay “parenting” study by Mark Regnerus was used to argue that marriage should be reserved for heterosexual couples. Other anti-gay arguments included “husband and wife means husband and wife,” tradition, the institution of marriage must be protected and therefore gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry, and marriage was designed to channel mankind’s procreative powers — a situation that gay and lesbian couples don’t have to worry about.
Other preposterous claims were made, including that LGBT people have extraordinary political power and therefore don’t need the courts to intervene, and that either the people or the legislature should decide the issue of marriage. Ironically, when the court took a short break, one attorney not realizing the cameras were still live, quipped that if the legislature passed marriage equality, the issue would till return to the state Supreme Court.
Typical hypocrisy on the part of the anti-gay Right. Now we wait – some sources think we’ll have a ruling within a couple weeks.
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