As the trial over California's prohibition on same-sex marriage enters its final stage today, the ban's sponsors are urging the judge to go a step further and revoke state recognition of the marriages of 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who wed before voters passed Proposition 8....
Andrew Pugno, an attorney for Prop. 8's backers, said in an interview that the sponsors aren't asking Walker to nullify the 18,000 marriages, but only to rule that government agencies, courts and businesses no longer have to recognize the couples as married.....
Gay rights advocates argued that the unequal treatment of couples who married at different times was one of many reasons to overturn the ballot measure. But Cooper said Tuesday there was a better way to treat both groups of couples equally while respecting the people's will - "sustaining Proposition 8 by giving it retrospective effect," that is, deny state recognition to the pre-election marriages.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Breaking: Prop8 defendants seek to revoke recognition of MY marriage
From the SF Gate:
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It boggles my mind that in a State where thousands of children go to bed hungry each night that a group of so-called "Christians" are more upset about who gets to be married than the children who die of malnutrition in California.
"Jesus wept."
The L.A. Times has two stories on the oral argument, one for the morning and the other for the afternoon -- Prop. 8 trial judge has questions for attorneys as closing arguments begin and Prop. 8 trial: Closing arguments end as judge presses both sides.
I'm speechless. And weeping. And stringing cuss words together.... and hoping they burn in hell --the lot of 'em.
but, then I remember, i don't believe in hell... and I'm back to the speechless part.
Sending you strong thoughts and great courage dear woman.
So they are looking for a Dred Scott like decision which nullified any claim of a Black to being a citizen.
"beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect"
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