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<DIV><EM><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">"They argue that voters alone
did not have the authority to enact such a significant constitutional
change."</FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"></FONT></EM> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">THAT is one scary sentence.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR></FONT><BR>--------------------------------------------------<BR>From:
"Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com><BR>Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008
7:24 AM<BR>To: <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020]
California Supreme Court to Take Up Gay Marriage<BR><BR>>>From today's
(November 20, 2008) Spokesman Review -<BR>> <BR>>
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California Supreme Court to hear cases on gay marriage ban <BR>> Lisa Leff
<BR>> Associated Press<BR>> November 20, 2008<BR>> <BR>> SAN
FRANCISCO - California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear <BR>> several
legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but <BR>>
refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules.<BR>>
<BR>> The California Supreme Court accepted three lawsuits seeking to nullify
<BR>> Proposition 8, a voter-approved constitutional amendment that overruled
<BR>> the court's decision in May that legalized gay marriage.<BR>>
<BR>> All three cases claim the measure abridges the civil rights of a
<BR>> vulnerable minority group. They argue that voters alone did not have
the <BR>> authority to enact such a significant constitutional
change.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> As is its custom when it takes up cases, the
court elaborated little. <BR>> However, the justices did say they want to
address what effect, if any, a <BR>> ruling upholding the amendment would
have on the estimated 18,000 same-sex <BR>> marriages that were sanctioned in
California before Election Day.<BR>> <BR>> Gay rights groups and local
governments petitioning to overturn the ban <BR>> were joined by the
measure's sponsors and Attorney General Jerry Brown in <BR>> urging the
Supreme Court to consider whether Proposition 8 passes legal <BR>>
muster.<BR>> <BR>> The initiative's opponents had also asked the court to
grant a stay of the <BR>> measure, which would have allowed gay marriages to
begin again while the <BR>> justices considered the cases. The court denied
that request.<BR>> <BR>> The justices directed Brown and lawyers for the
Yes on 8 campaign to <BR>> submit arguments by Dec. 19 on why the ballot
initiative should not be <BR>> nullified. It said lawyers for the plaintiffs,
who include same-sex <BR>> couples who did not wed before the election, must
respond before Jan. 5.<BR>> <BR>> Oral arguments could be scheduled as
early as March, according to court <BR>> spokeswoman Lynn Holton.<BR>>
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<BR>> Seeya round town, Moscow.<BR>> <BR>> Tom Hansen<BR>> Moscow,
Idaho<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>> Tom Hansen wrote:<BR>>> >
>From the Associated Press -<BR>>> ><BR>>> >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y1axGO8iAE<BR>>> ><BR>>> >
Seeya round town, Moscow.<BR>>> ><BR>>> > Tom
Hansen<BR>>> > Moscow, Idaho<BR>>> > <BR>>> >
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The <BR>> college
<BR>>> > students are not very active in local elections (thank
goodness!)."<BR>>> ><BR>>> > - Dale Courtney (March 28,
2007)<BR>>> ><BR>>> ><BR>>> >
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