Governator Hopes Court Overturns Vote Against Same Sex Couples
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told protestors against the state’s Proposition 8, stripping marriage equality from same sex couples, not to give up the fight. “It’s unfortunate, obviously, but it’s not the end,” said Schwarzeneggar indicating that California’s Supreme Court may again take up the issue.
The Governor, whose thinking on the issue has evolved, was backed up by the Rev. Ed Bacon of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. Bacon said, “The evil of discrimination against our lesbian sisters and gay brothers is still alive.”
Rev. Bacon added, “We will continue to bless same-sex unions here until we can legally celebrate same-sex unions again,” bringing applause and a standing ovation from churchgoers
Source: www.latimes.com
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Clay | Nov 11, 2008 | Reply
So judges are going to speak for the voters now when the result isn’t what a politician wanted? Hey, we don’t like the outcome of the election, let’s go ask the judges. This sounds very dangerous to me.
One Lesbo | Nov 11, 2008 | Reply
Clay, thanks for the comment and for taking your time to read our site.
Contrary to what most people seem to think, it was only through the rulings of the Courts that we have progressed as a people. It wasn’t a majority vote that outlawed slavery. It wasn’t a majority vote that allowed whites and blacks to marry. In fact, it wasn’t even by majority vote that married couples were allowed to use contraceptives.
In each case, the Courts acted to state what our common sense should tell us. Look at each of these cases Clay. In each case, if put to the popular vote, the case would have been decided the other way. In fact, in some southern states today blacks and whites would not be allowed to marry if put to the popular vote.
The 3 branches of government don’t just protect the majority, they are also there to protect the minority from the majority . . . thank the good Lord for the Founding Fathers of the US!
Griswold v. Connecticut, (1965)
This decision made it illegal for states to prohibit the use of contraceptives by married couples. By a vote of 7-2, the Supreme Court invalidated a Conn. law prohibiting the use of contraceptives by married couples on the grounds that it violated the “right to marital privacy”.
Loving v. Virginia (1967):
This decision made it illegal to restrict interracial couples in the United States.
McLaughlin v. Florida (1964):
This decision reversed a law that prevented the “habitual occupation of a room at night by a Negro and a white person”.
Naim v. Naim (1955):
This decision taken by the Virginia Supreme Court, upheld that state’s miscegenation laws on the grounds that “[m]arriage . . . is subject to the control of the States. Nearly seventy years ago the [U.S.] Supreme Court said, and it has said nothing to the contrary since.”
Perez v. Sharp (1948):
This decision, previously known as Perez v. Moroney and Perez v. Lippold, ended the ban on interracial couples in California.
Meyer v. Nebraska (1923):
This decision guaranteed the right to marry and raise children.
Pace v. Alabama (1883):
This decision stated that anti-miscegenation laws were in compliance with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as long as both violators were punished equally.
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