Wisc. Gov. Scott Walker seeks to stop defense of state's domestic partner registry

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Madison - Gov. Scott Walker believes a new law that gives gay couples hospital visitation rights violates the state constitution and has asked a judge to allow the state to stop defending it.

Democrats who controlled the Legislature in 2009 changed the law so that same-sex couples could sign up for domestic partnership registries with county clerks to secure some - but not all - of the rights afforded married couples.

Wisconsin Family Action sued last year in Dane County circuit court, arguing that the registries violated a 2006 amendment to the state constitution that bans gay marriage and any arrangement that is substantially similar.

Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen refused to defend the lawsuit, saying he agreed the new law violated the state constitution. Then-Gov. Jim Doyle, a Democrat, hired Madison attorney Lester Pines to defend the state. ...........(more)

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[Drale]

1. Scott Walker being allowed to run for office is a crime against humanity

This asshole better lose the recall election or I predict something bad is going to happen to him.

[MNBrewer]

2. When does it become acceptable to put up violent resistance?

Just sayin'

[Angry Dragon]

3. When you have nothing else left to lose.......... just saying

[Ed Suspicious]

4. It is interesting watching people tip-toe around the idea.

I can't blame them. But I do see the numbers of people treading very lightly around the idea as to not go all in. I do wonder if one day people will go all in and rise up. There is a growing civil disobedience campaign at the capitol. Tensions are rising. Watching Mike Ellis chomping his gum, wearing his dark glasses, and shouting down democrat senators on the floor of the senate sure raises my blood pressure. These are increasingly tense times.