Prop 8 upheld by Supreme Court

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Registered: 01-12-2009
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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iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 6:59pm
Amazing how quickly that will change the law indeed.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 7:00pm

Why can't they marry?

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Registered: 07-20-2004
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 7:02pm
I'm through with this nonsense, it's making no sense! Marry your sister, Brother marries sister, then having sex would be incest. sheesh. I'm DONE!
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Registered: 03-19-2009
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 7:04pm

What if judges decided that in order to rule that gay marriage is to be allowed but that rule also applied to everyone.

 

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Registered: 03-19-2009
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 7:07pm

People will be allowed to marry whomever or whatever they chose.

 

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Registered: 05-26-2009
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 7:08pm

>>> Nothing in your comments refutes what I said, because there is nothing you can say to refute it.

LOL! Then I guess you'll have to live with the enormous disappointment that so many people are voting against an irrefutable argument.

>>> The fact is abuse of women is far more prevalent than you care to admit. More than half the women I know have been abused in some way during their lives, but then altogether too many guys have no clue.

Well, from folks who believe that a caterpillar is "torture" I can only fathom how strong the wind will have to blow before you call it "abuse."

>>> As for California, a new vote is coming, with quite a different result.

Really? A vote to amend the CA constitution? I hadn't heard. Probably just some irate folks chasing their tails.

>>> Hang tight to the denial of rights, it will diminish year by year, until we finally eradicate bigotry from this nation, once...and for all.

Yeah...you hang on to that. I'm thinking that we'll be seeing a LOT more changes to a LOT more state constitutions. Power to the people.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 7:08pm
So what?

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 7:10pm
Try addressing the entire question instead of one piece of it.

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Registered: 07-20-2004
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 7:11pm
It doesn't! But it must bother people who are opposed to Gay marriage, or we wouldn't be having this inane argument.
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Registered: 03-19-2009
Tue, 06-02-2009 - 7:14pm

Try addressing the entire question instead of one piece of it.

 

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