As I am sure you all have heard The California Supreme Court upheld Prop 8.
Justice Carlos Moreno wrote the dissenting opinion disagreeing that the proposition did not change the constitution’s equal protection clause. He said the law denying same-sex couples the right to wed “strikes at the core of the promise of equality that underlies our California Constitution.” He said it represents a “drastic and far-reaching change.”
“Promising equal treatment to some is fundamentally different from promising equal treatment for all,” said Moreno, who had been mentioned as a possible contender for the U.S. Supreme Court. “Promising treatment that is almost equal is fundamentally different from ensuring truly equal treatment.”
It’s nice to know at least one judge was paying attention while the 6 others probably never read Loving v. Virginia.
Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival
It is sad to see that those basic civil rights can be voted away by a majority. I wonder what minority gets it next?
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lvanhine wrote,
It will eventually be struck down as a violation of the 14th amendment in California, and/or the referendum rules will be clarified in an appellate decision of some kind so that these simple majorities can’t make sweeping changes to the California constitution. It’s a flaw in the constitution, really.
And on a different topic, did you just make your blog registration only, Teddy? I never needed a login to WordPress to post here.
Link | May 26th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
Yeah you may not have seen it but I was getting spammed hard.
Link | May 26th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
lvanhine wrote,
oh dear, I guess I missed that part! But then again until recently I couldn’t get to this version of your site until a few days ago, I was looking at the livejournal side which generally doesn’t get comments.
Link | May 27th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Amie wrote,
I find it sad that we tend to not remember our own history, that we just recreate the Jim Crow laws again and again with different groupings of people and in different ways. I actually had an African American coworker, who is in his 50’s and married to a white woman, tell me that there was a huge difference between interracial marriage and gay marriage. Now I’m depressed.
“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then… they came for me… And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”
Link | May 27th, 2009 at 9:37 pm