know your "adversaries", mister

on the new jersey ruling: bla bla bla must protect marriage against "activist court rulings" bla bla, says president bush.

the supreme court of new jersey unanimously decided yesterday that homos should have the same marriage rights and benefits of hets. whether these unions should be called "marriages" or some other name is left up to the legislature.

(an aside: i guess he didn't read the opinion. the court basically told the legislature to decide whether same sex unions should be called "marriages". the majority opinion was about rights and benefits, not the institution itself. but i suppose he's to retarded to comprehend this.)

anyway, let's see who is in this "activist court" shall we?

i proudly present the new jersey supreme court (on october 25, 2006):

CHIEF JUSTICE - DEBORAH PORITZ, a republican (you didn't know that?). nominated by republican former governor christine todd whitman. (author of the minority opinion, which stated that there is no reason to give a same sex unions any name other than "marriage". they should be called "marriages" or else they are not truly equal to "marriages". note: this opinion went further than the massachusetts ruling, for reasons i won't get into at this point. it's boring constitutional law stuff. i will resurrect this point in an upcoming post.)

Virginia Long and James Zazzali both joined in Poritz's opinion, and they were both nominated by the republican christine todd whitman.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE - BARRY ALBIN, a democrat nominated by democrat jim mcgreevey. authored the majority opinion that did not give as many rights as the republican chief justice would like.

most of the others were nominated by mcgreevey and sided with justice albin.

IN SHORT, THE EVEN MORE "ACTIVIST" (AS YOU, MR. BUSH, DEFINE IT, ANYWAY - I PREFER JUST CALLING IT "INTERPRETING THE CONSTITUTION" WHICH IS WHAT A JUDGE DOES) MINORITY OF THIS "ACTIVIST" COURT ARE REPUBLICANS OR WERE NOMINATED BY REPUBLICANS. the punters are democrats or were nominated by democrats.

(whatever happened to christine todd whitman anyway? where's the VH1 special?)

why has the republican party been hijacked by a bunch of bobbleheads who kiss the butts of the "fire and brimstone" crowd? or is new jersey just a weird state?