[Vision2020] California Supreme Court to Take Up Gay Marriage

[keely emerinemix]

Sorry, Kai, but scarier than that is the idea that our government, with the Constitution constantly held at the whim of voters, could deteriorate into a government-by-referenda.  It's been bad for Washington State, but at least Tim Eyman hasn't gone after human rights or Constitutional guarantees thereof.

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/




From: editor at lataheagle.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com; thansen at moscow.com
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:33:04 -0800
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] California Supreme Court to Take Up Gay Marriage








"They argue that voters alone 
did not have the authority to enact such a significant constitutional 
change."
 
THAT is one scary sentence.


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From: 
"Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 
7:24 AM
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 
California Supreme Court to Take Up Gay Marriage

>>From today's 
(November 20, 2008) Spokesman Review -
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California Supreme Court to hear cases on gay marriage ban 
> Lisa Leff 

> Associated Press
> November 20, 2008
> 
> SAN 
FRANCISCO - California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear 
> several 
legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but 
> 
refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules.
> 

> The California Supreme Court accepted three lawsuits seeking to nullify 

> Proposition 8, a voter-approved constitutional amendment that overruled 

> the court's decision in May that legalized gay marriage.
> 

> All three cases claim the measure abridges the civil rights of a 

> vulnerable minority group. They argue that voters alone did not have 
the 
> authority to enact such a significant constitutional 
change.
> 
> 
> As is its custom when it takes up cases, the 
court elaborated little. 
> However, the justices did say they want to 
address what effect, if any, a 
> ruling upholding the amendment would 
have on the estimated 18,000 same-sex 
> marriages that were sanctioned in 
California before Election Day.
> 
> Gay rights groups and local 
governments petitioning to overturn the ban 
> were joined by the 
measure's sponsors and Attorney General Jerry Brown in 
> urging the 
Supreme Court to consider whether Proposition 8 passes legal 
> 
muster.
> 
> The initiative's opponents had also asked the court to 
grant a stay of the 
> measure, which would have allowed gay marriages to 
begin again while the 
> justices considered the cases. The court denied 
that request.
> 
> The justices directed Brown and lawyers for the 
Yes on 8 campaign to 
> submit arguments by Dec. 19 on why the ballot 
initiative should not be 
> nullified. It said lawyers for the plaintiffs, 
who include same-sex 
> couples who did not wed before the election, must 
respond before Jan. 5.
> 
> Oral arguments could be scheduled as 
early as March, according to court 
> spokeswoman Lynn Holton.
> 

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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, 
Idaho
> 
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>> Tom Hansen wrote:
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>From the Associated Press -
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y1axGO8iAE
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Seeya round town, Moscow.
>> >
>> > Tom 
Hansen
>> > Moscow, Idaho
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>> > 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The 
> college 

>> > students are not very active in local elections (thank 
goodness!)."
>> >
>> > - Dale Courtney (March 28, 
2007)
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