Prop 8 upheld by Supreme Court

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Prop 8 upheld by Supreme Court
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Tue, 05-26-2009 - 8:49pm

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prop8-decision27-2009may27,0,6677891.story



Prop. 8 upheld by California Supreme Court


Sit-in


Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times

Engaged couple Robert Franco, right, and Shawn Higgins kiss as San Francisco police line up to arrest anti-Proposition 8 demonstrators.

The justices uphold the same-sex marriage ban but also rule that the 18,000 gay couples who wed before the November vote will stay married. The decision is sure to spark another ballot box fight.

By Maura Dolan
11:44 AM PDT, May 26, 2009


Reporting from San Francisco -- The California Supreme Court today upheld Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage but also ruled that gay couples who wed before the election will continue to be married under state law.

The decision virtually ensures another fight at the ballot box over marriage rights for gays. Gay rights activists say they may ask voters to repeal the marriage ban as early as next year, and opponents have pledged to fight any such effort. Proposition 8 passed with 52% of the vote.


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Registered: 08-13-2008
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 3:54pm
Nonsense.


Full length fiction: worlds undone


"You have no power over my body..." ~ Anne Hutchinson


"You think you know, sir!" ~ Cornflake Girl ~ Tori Amos.


Full length fiction: worlds undone

"You have no power over my body..." ~ Anne Hutchinson

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Registered: 08-13-2008
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 3:55pm

What if someone loves their neighbors


Full length fiction: worlds undone

"You have no power over my body..." ~ Anne Hutchinson

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Tue, 06-02-2009 - 4:04pm

Marriage to minors was legal BEFORE gay marriage. So gay marriage did not "open the doors"

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Registered: 07-04-2005
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 4:05pm

Refuting vulgar distraction is not using it in the debate, it's responding to those who insist that if they bring pedophelia into it enough, they don't have to acknowlege the actual topic.


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Tue, 06-02-2009 - 4:06pm

And you've invalidated your own assertion that gay marriage will open the doors....since those doors have BEEN open.


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Tue, 06-02-2009 - 4:08pm

Which special rights to gays want?


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Tue, 06-02-2009 - 4:10pm
If they weren't marrying a person of the same sex, then they wouldn't be gay. So, how is that special privledge? Strait couples marry, meaning a man and a woman, a Gay person wants to marry a person of the same sex, how is that a "special priviledge" as far as they are concerned? All they want is the same rights as a hetrosexual couple. I don't for the life of me how it went so far out on a limb about marrying children and animals!
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Tue, 06-02-2009 - 4:10pm

Amazingly enough...everyone WILL have the same rights. Once gays are granted full equality...and they will be...then ALL people will be allowed to marry someone of their own gender too..!!!!!


Funny how that works.


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Registered: 07-04-2005
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 4:41pm

Well we all love a lot of

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Registered: 05-26-2009
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 5:16pm

So we can kill people if they're small? LOL!

You are 10 weeks pregnant. (eight weeks after conception)

* From this week until birth, the developing organism is called a fetus.
* The fetus is now the size of a small strawberry.
* The feet are 2mm long (one tenth of an inch).
* The neck is beginning to take shape.
* The body muscles are almost developed. Baby has begun movement.
* While still too small for you to feel, your little one is wriggling and shifting.
* The jaws are in place. The mouth cavity and the nose are joined.
* The ears and nose can now be seen clearly.
* Fingerprints are already evident in the skin.
* Nipples and hair follicles begin to form.

8 weeks feet8 weeks hands The unborn baby is now called a fetus. Though the fetus is constantly moving, you will not be able to actually feel fetal movement for several more weeks. All of the organs, muscles, and nerves are in place and beginning to function. As the hands and feet develop fingers and toes, they have lost their paddle like look. The touch pads on the fingers form and already have fingerprints.

During this week of pregnancy the crown to rump length of the fetus is 0.9 inch to 1.2 inches (22 to 30mm), weight 0.07 ounce (2gm). They are now on the way to forming their testicles or ovaries, getting ready for the next generation. Until the ninth week of fetus development, the fetal reproductive apparatus is the same one for the both sexes. The head is still large and curves into chest.

http://www.baby2see.com/development/week10.html

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