Colombia!

Two years ago the Colombia Constitutional Court said the legislature had to provide full legal recognition of gay couples. The court said Congress had until June 20 of this year to enact the proper laws. A marriage equality bill was rejected in April and no action was taken since then, leaving gay couples wondering what to do. One gay couple went to their local judge and petitioned to have their relationship recognized. The judge set a date -- July 24 -- for their marriage ceremony.



This will be interesting. The gay marriage suit brought in Pennsylvania has been assigned to a judge, John Jones III. He had a famous case before. He's known as

the judge who previously ruled that a School District in Dover was not allowed to teach religiously-tinged Intelligent Design Theory in public schools, also known as the Kitzmiller case. He stated explicitly in his opinion that the district was attempting to "impose a religious view of biological origins into the biology course," despite a ban on state-sponsored religion in the Pennsylvania constitution

The case has left the governor, Tom Corbett, in a pickle. The Penn. AG, Kathleen Kane has refused to defend the gay marriage ban. That leaves it up to Corbett to defend. He's GOP in a bluish state (it went for Obama). Does he refuse to defend the law and annoy his base or defend it and annoy the majority who favor of marriage equality? Poor guy. He is up for reelection next year.



They're like zombies, you blast away at them and they keep on coming. ProtectMarriage, the group that brought us the gay marriage ban in Calif., is still at it. The Supremes told them they didn't have standing. They filed a motion with Justice Anthony Kennedy saying gay marriages started too soon, leaving them no time to ask for a reconsideration. Kennedy told them to go away. Now they're on the way to the state Supremes asking that gay marriages be stopped. The reasoning is that no appellate court ruled the ban unconstitutional. It was a district court ruling that was left standing. This effort is an "extreme long shot."