Same-Sex Marriage Likely Headed to Courts in California
Jerry Brown, the state attorney general, filed a brief saying the matter merited the court’s attention
Opponents of same-sex marriage have countered that the initiative may be broad, but it is still legal. "When using the initiative process to amend the Constitution, the people exercise their sovereign power of self-government," Andrew Pugno, the lead attorney for Protect Marriage, wrote in papers filed with the court. "Other courts addressing similar revision/amendment arguments under closely analogous constitutional provisions have rejected them. Proposition 8 is simple, narrow, and targeted to a single issue. It restores the definition of marriage to what it was and always had been prior to May 15, 2008—nothing more. Whatever one's view of the wisdom of Proposition 8, the people of California have spoken, and their will should be respected."
The state's Supreme Court justices may address the matter as early as Wednesday, when they convene for their weekly conference.
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Dan of CA>>> Science is getting closer,closer???????????? Well have they found the missing link yet??? Well until they do, which will probably be bogus, could please stop saying that being gay was hereditary!!! Your color is not , who you choose to spend your time with is. Was I born Straight??????? Heterophobics..... gesh I tell ya..................
A choice huh?
To OH,
I agree completely, why all this fuss? Just give us our rights, and stop whining. Gay marriage WILL be the law, so why fight something that is inevitable? Waste of time and Mormon money....
To Mr. Looney,
You are absolutely INCORRECT about your race not being a choice and sexual orientation being a choice. Scientists are getting closer and closer to determining that sexual orientation is EXACTLY the same as race, and gender. In other words, we are either born straight, gay or bisexual (the transgender part is what I'm not clear on, but my gut tells me that indeed there are males born in female's bodies, and vice versa). Why would anyone choose the host of problems that a gay person faces EVERY day of their lives? A choice? I don't think so... Would you choose discrimination over being treated as everyone else is treated? In some states we can lose our jobs, be forbidden from seeing our partners in the hospital, forbidden from adopting children, and in 48 states forbidden from marrying the person we love. If this is not the VERY SAME struggle for equality that blacks fought, what is it? Of course a person's race and gender are more obviously observed, and thus they make easier targets of discriminator practices, but this doesn't lessen in any way the fact that gays face the SAME issues that blacks faced in your struggle (I guess you forgot Anita Bryant's witch hunt that attempted to deny gay people housing and jobs?). Don't forget that 70 percent of Americans were against interracial marriage when the court threw out the ban on it just a few decades ago. So, the ignorant majority has no business taking away rights from the powerless minority, and this is what the bill of rights is for and what the courts are for.
How DARE you say that homosexuality is a choice. It's every bit as much a part of our make-up as our skin color, and I think this will be proven and the bible believers will be shown to be the bigots that they are....
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