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Prop 8 upheld by Supreme Court
| 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

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
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.
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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>>> Nobody is proposing marriage of children - nice try!
Someone will...that's the point. And you won't be able to find a reasonable argument to oppose them...that's the point.
>>> Nope! They want to be free to marry the adult partner of their choice - just like heteros. Got anything else?
So do the polygamists...and the child lovers...and the animal lovers...and the robot lovers...etc...and that's a slippery slope we'd rather not travel down, thank you very much. So let's just leave "marriage" to it's traditional meaning and intent, shall we?
There's logic in racing to pedophilia, beastiality and incest when discussing gay marriage?
have we lost our morals in society?
Mine are intact, thank you very much.
I left this board for a reason. Thank you for reminding me why I did.
There is no doubt in my mind that comments tossed around here are said specifically to hurt others, to demean, to devalue. I'm not at all certain the people saying it even believe what they write.
No thank you. I won't play that game, nor allow those words to harm.
Have fun.
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Full length fiction: worlds undone
"You have no power over my body..." ~ Anne Hutchinson
>>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!<<
But it is absolutely not nonsense. It's the same argument made by gays. You have a problem with incest? Deal with it. Your moral issues with incest are no different than someone's moral issues with homosexuals.
Not to mention, who says they're even going to have sex? What goes on in their bedroom is not your business or the government's business.
Either the right to marry the person of your choosing is a right that should be afforded to all adults or it's not.
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