Yes on Equality, a Gay Rights group that sponsors a second ballot measure intending to get rid of California's infamous Proposition 8, which bans all same-sex marriage throughout the state, have just been cleared by the secretary of state today to try and collect the nearly 700,000 signatures needed to qualify its initiative before August 17.
Gay rights advocates are urging the court to overturn the ban on the grounds it was put before voters improperly, or at least prematurely. Under state law, the Legislature must approve significant constitutional changes before they can go on the ballot.Proposition 8's sponsors, represented in court by former Pepperdine law school dean and Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr, argue that the ballot initiative was approved correctly. They argued it would be a miscarriage of justice for the court to overturn the results of a fair election.
No, Dean, it would not be a miscarriage of justice. It's actually your creed that's against the law at the moment, as last I heard, the 2008 American Supreme Court had ruled that banning same-sex marriage was a fundamentally unconstitutional civil rights violation. I wasn't aware states had the right to go directly against federal legislation. How that blasted Prop 8 even was allowed into ballot is beyond me. But then, so are most legal shenanigans like these.
Remind me again how allowing some people to marry or not is ANYONE'S fucking business other than their own?
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