Mayor Gavin Newsom speaks at the "No on 8" party at the Westin St. Francis on Tuesday.
Posted on 11/05/2008 1:46:32 PM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- After a heated, divisive campaign fueled by a record $73 million of spending, California voters have approved Proposition 8, which would change the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Opponents promptly filed suit to try to block the measure from taking effect.
With 96 percent of the vote counted, Prop. 8 was winning by a decisive 400,000-vote margin, 52.2 percent to 47.8 percent. It piled up huge margins in the Central Valley and carried some Democratic strongholds such as Los Angeles County. The measure lost in every Bay Area county but Solano.
As the vote counting continued this morning, opponents of Prop. 8 filed a lawsuit directly with the state Supreme Court - whose May 15 ruling legalized same-sex marriage - asking the justices to overturn the measure.
The suit argued that Prop. 8 would change the California Constitution in such fundamental ways - taking important rights away from a minority group - that it amounted to a constitutional revision, which requires approval by the Legislature before being submitted to the voters. The case was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lamda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
The same groups asked the court before the election to remove Prop. 8 from the ballot on those grounds. The justices refused, but left the door open for a post-election challenge.
"A major purpose of the Constitution is to protect minorities from majorities," said Elizabeth Gill, an ACLU lawyer. "Because changing that principle is a fundamental change to the organizing principles of the Constitution itself, only the Legislature can initiative such revisions."
The suit was filed on behalf of six unmarried same-sex couples and the gay rights group Equality California.
Passage of Prop. 8 leaves more than just the future of same-sex marriage up in the air. Questions have...been raised about whether...
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The vote will be overturned by the 0bama Supreme Ministry of Justice.
And he’s planning to run for Guv. Remember that smirk!
California has won a reprieve—for now.
The liberals are gonna get to the right to gay marriage, even if they have to trample the Constitution and the American people along the way. Why go through all that inconvenient “voting” nonsense or listen to that nonsense about the “legislature making the laws” when they can just go through the courts and leave it up to someone who was never elected and can make any decision he wants? They obviously know what’s best for us. Who needs democracy anyway?
I could see this lawsuit coming. Why vote on such proposals if they are going to be blocked by some liberal judge?
...this really isn’t about marriage....it’s about homos thinking they can make us approve of them.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Just let the poxy vermin try.
Logic-chopping rubbish. Homosexuals have exactly the same marriage rights as anybody else. Any male homosexual can marry any female homosexual. What they want is SPECIAL RIGHTS for their minority, and only their minority.
But in fact "gay marriage" is all about destroying civilization, nothing less.
.....and California blacks voted 70 percent FOR it.
Right square on the head. Everything the left does has the result and the intent of destroying the traditional family.
Yay Fresno!
It just looks like the only way to shut the ACLU and its fellow travelers up is to add a Marriage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That Proposition 8 passed fair and square through the democratic process means nothing to them.
It’s not about marriage... it’s about teaching homosexuality in schools and it’s also about ADOPTION.
Faith of Our Fathers ping
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
As usual they will stall and wait for a sympathetic Court. Or, as with “English Only”...refuse to abide.
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