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, editor in chief, 365gay.com 05.26.2009 1:03pm EDT
News & Politics
After months of waiting, the California Supreme Court decision on Proposition 8 is in:
Prop 8 is upheld – there will be no new gay marriage in California. But the 18,000 couples in California who were married last summer will stay married.
More to come after we read the decision. Read the gay marriage decision for yourself.
In the meantime – want to protest? Check out DayofDecision.com to find an event tonight near you.
A great recap of how we came to this point is at the LA Times.
Prop 8 press conferences are live here until 2:30 EST.
Have those judges removed and executed as traitors at once.
Time to march, and time to vote.
The fact that the 18000 marriages are still valid is going to make this an easy decision to overturn. California has same-sex marriage today.
Guess now it’s time to start collecting the signatures for the 2010 ballot initiative.
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Now that it’s legal and acceptable to vote to take away fundamental rights from disfavored minorities in CA, let’s start a campaign to take away the right to vote in state elections from Mormons!
We lost a battle – not the war! We will win this – even the other side agrees.
Let’s go!
Riot. Protest. Break. Destroy. Do SOMETHING that will let them know that we will NOT just sit down and play nice when they openly and blatantly discriminate against us. For too long we have acquiesced, waited our turn, appeased, forgave. Our movement forward began with the Stonewall RIOTS. Let’s make them fear our power once more, and then maybe they’ll listen. Pacifism has led us nowhere. The legal system has led us nowhere. It is long past time to rebel again, and make SURE no one can ignore and sideline us ever again.
We’ll get there someday.
It is a shame that some believe that the Majority can tell a Minority what to do. It is this kind of thinking that led to the rise of the Nazi Party and the Holocaust.
Even if gay marriage wins by a new ballot vote it is still a loss because it only proves that our ‘right’ is just something that is approved of by a majority.
Let’s use all of our rage to come together and change this horrific lack of justice. March in the streets! Show the world that we will not tolerate anything less than 100% justice and equality for all! Let Stonewall II begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please sign the petition to put the question on the ballot again asap. We will wear the bastards down.
If the argument against Prop 8 was that it was a REVISION to the constitution and not an amendment, why weren’t lawsuits filed before the election? I think today’s decision has a lot to do with the fact that it would be very difficult and unpopular to nullify a voter-approved referendum.
The lamentable decision of California’s Supreme Court is a setback, not a failure. The Court did little other than what 52% of California’s voters wished it to do by means of their enactment of Proposition 8. It is unfortunate, but the law of Califorina – as it stands – does allow for the majority to disenfranchise a minority. Fundamental freedoms and basic human rights do not, in effect, exist in the views of California’s most esteemed jurists. The law is the law, and that is the law.
Gay and lesbian people, their allies, and all freedom-loving people everywhere have a long struggle ahead, but in the end it will surely be successful. As that struggle advances, let us not forget who our allies were and who our opponents were. Let the names of those ‘justices’ who voted to sustain Proposition 8’s legality be forever inscribed in our memories, and let there never come a time when their shame ceases.
No civil rights struggle has ever failed – ever -