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Joe the Plumber to Families of Isla Vista Victims: 'Your Dead Kids Don't Trump' the 2nd Amendment

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Amory Blaine5/27/2014 9:12:49 pm PDT

Our SC is stacked with conservatives so this is not surprising.

State Supreme Court rejects same-sex marriage petition

The state Supreme Court last week declined, without comment, to hear a direct challenge to Wisconsin’s constitutional ban on gay marriage.

A Milwaukee County couple, Katherine and Linda Halopka-Ivery, asked the high court to directly hear their lawsuit, which claimed Wisconsin was violating the U.S. Constitution by limiting marriage to one man and one woman.

The couple married in December in California, where same-sex marriage is legal. The lawsuit sought to force Wisconsin to recognize their marriage and to allow them to qualify for all of the benefits that married heterosexual couples have.

But the high court, in a decision filed Thursday, declined to hear the case. Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and Justice Ann Walsh Bradley dissented, also without comment.