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“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

26 May 2009

CA Prop8 glass half full



Prop8 stands, and so does the 18,000 same-sex marriages, Half a victory..

Over at Pam's House Blend, There is this,

Oh boy, now the Obama administration will have to take its head out of the sand as the stakes have been raised by an outfit called the American Foundation for Equal Rights.

Two of the nation's top litigators who opposed each other in the Bush v. Gore election challenge in 2000 have joined forces to seek federal court intervention in California's gay marriage controversy.

Theodore B. Olson and David Boies have filed a U.S. District Court lawsuit on behalf of two gay men and two gay women, arguing that the California constitutional amendment eliminating the right of gay couples to marry violates the U.S. constitutional guarantee of equal protection and due process.


Now I have to wonder what would happen here in North Carolina???

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