Anti-Gay Liberty Counsel Challenges Marriage Equality In New York

Speaking of embarrassments to the Commonwealth of Virginia, Metro Weekly is reporting that Liberty Counsel - based at the late Jerry Falwell's foul boil Liberty University Law School - will be appealing a New York State court ruling that threw out claims that New York State's marriage equality law had been enacted illegally.   For newer readers, employees at Liberty University have stated that Christians need to violate laws that do not conform to their fear and hated based version of Christianity.  Moreover, employees have been implicated in Lisa Miller's kidnapping of her daughter Isabella notwithstanding Virginia and Vermont court orders directing her to surrender the child to her former same sex partner.   Equally disturbing is the fact that Matt Barber (pictured at left) - a professional gay hater who constantly disseminating anti-gay lies - is on the Liberty University Law School faculty.  Here are highlights from the Metro Weekly coverage:

An anti-gay group requested today that New York's highest court review a lower court's decision to dismiss their lawsuit against the state's marriage equality law.

Among other things, Liberty Counsel contends that the state's open meeting law, which requires public access to the deliberations of legislative bodies, was violated during closed-door negotiations between marriage equality supporters and state senators. As such, the law granting same-sex couples the right to marry in New York should be scraped completely.

 After marriage equality was signed into law in June 2011, Liberty Counsel took their case to court.   .   .   .   .   However, last month the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court in Rochester ruled unanimously to dismiss the case, ruling that the meetings between Republican senators and advocates for the bill, which included Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, were lawful.

"In the event that we were to adopt plaintiffs' limited definition of 'guests,' it would be impossible for a Democratic member of a governor's office, such as a budget director, to speak to a majority Republican caucus," read the decision.

Now Liberty Counsel has asked the New York State Court of Appeals to consider the case. The group, which is well known for their anti-gay rhetoric, says "the remedy sought is the voiding of the law."

In statement, the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel argued again that "arm-twisting and closed-door meetings used to pass this law redefining marriage violated the open meetings requirements" and that the legislative process must be transparent.

In my opinion both Matt Barber and Liberty Counsel head Matt Staver are certified assholes.  Moreover, given their unrestrained hysteria against gays, one has to wonder if they don't "protest too much."  No one is that homophobic in my view unless they have some serious issues of their own in terms of their sexuality.  Those who are comfortable with their own sexuality and don't have scarred psyches that need others to look down upon for self justification simply don't get this worked up over same sex CIVIL marriage laws.