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Showing posts with label CA Prop8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CA Prop8. Show all posts

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???

24 May 2009

The Decision on PROP 8 in CA

Wow the Time as come finally to find out one way or another.. Will our Communities in CA and across the US be ready for this Decision?
The California Supreme Court has announced that it will issue an opinion in three cases challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8 at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 26, 2009. (Strauss v. Horton, S168047; Tyler v. State of California, S168066; City and County of San Francisco v. Horton, S168078.) Tuesday at 10 a.m., the opinion will be available on the California Courts Web site at this link: http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/.
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