Judge Shopping Machinations on Homosexual Marriage Case

In a very depressing sign of what our courts have become (bench-legislators separated from all sense of original intent and perfectly willing to use the courts to hammer through their personal feelings on a matter into a quasi-law) here is an Arktimes article on some of the maneuvering to decide who will hear a case on formal recognition of homosexual relationships as marriage. It is hard for me to see how an individual has a "right" to formal public approval for their relationship, especially when such "approval" is mandated by a court instead of passed by referendum or at least legislation from "the people's branch."