A federal judge upheld Puerto Rico’s ban on same-sex marriage on Tuesday, Oct. 21.
According to the Los Angeles Times, U.S. District Judge Juan M. Pérez-Giménez based his decision on the dismissal of appeal in Baker v. Nelson, a 1971 case in which two men sought to marry in Minnesota. By dismissing the appeal, wrote Pérez-Giménez, “the Supreme Court bound all lower courts to assume bans on same-sex marriage do not violate the Constitution. The high court could choose to overrule itself but has not.”
Evoking his inner Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.), he wrote legalizing same-sex marriage will lead to bestiality and to polyamorous and incestuous marriages.
“Ultimately,” he wrote, “the very survival of the political order depends upon the procreative potential embodied in traditional marriage.”
Talk about activist judges.
