The Obama administration is pushing the Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8, a ban on gay marriage in California, and it could have much broader implications than just California:
FOX NEWS – The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn California’s ban on gay marriage and take a skeptical view of similar bans elsewhere, wading into a case that could have broad implications for the right of same-sex couples to wed.
The administration said unequivocally in a friend-of-the-court brief filed late Thursday that gay marriage should be allowed to resume in California, where citizens voted to bar it in a 2008 referendum known as Proposition 8.
It does not explicitly call for marriage equality across the United States but points the court in that direction.
More immediately, the administration’s position, if adopted by the court, probably would result in gay marriage becoming legal in seven other states that, like California, give gay couples all the benefits of marriage, but don’t allow them to wed.
They are: Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island.
The brief marks President Barack Obama’s most expansive view of the legal rights of gays and lesbians to marry. He announced his personal support for gay marriage last year but has said the issue should be governed by states.
Mark Levin opened his show on this topic, giving it far more context than you will hear anywhere else and explaining why the Supreme Court’s decision to wade into this area could make gay marriage legal everywhere, essentially taking gay marriage away from the states just as it did abortion.
He also asks the 80 Republicans who signed on to this case, what happened to federalism?
You can listen to the entire segment below: