Hundreds turn out for state Supreme Court hearing on same-sex marriage
The hatred for the GLBT folks is horrifying... I no longer feel safe in this country.
Here are two reasonable comments from the debate at the bottom of the article:
I cannot help but speculate about the lives of those who so virulently seek to deny others basic civil rights, especially when those they seek to oppress are gay. Cloaking themselves in tortured Biblical jibberish, they so often try to impose rules upon gay people they themselves could not ever adhere to, and more often than not violate themselves. When viewing the character of people like Ken Starr, who became the nation's pornographer in his malicious and completely unnecessary prosecution of President Clinton, strutting about affectedly and inappropriately using antiquated latinese legal terms and oversolicitous mannerisms before the court as if this was the court of St. James rather than the CalSupremes, it just all seems such fakery and fraud. However it seemed that more reasonable minds opened the very real possibility of considering this case as one of first review, and as such, Prop 8 will indeed fall.
11.24.08 - (Reuters) CA's gay marriage ban could open the door to legal discrimination against unpopular groups if the state Supreme Court allows the voter-approved measure to stand, blacks, Latinos, Asians & other minorities said. Legal scholars say the measure, which defines marriage as between a man & a woman, breaks new ground by limiting the courts' ability to protect minorities. "They could take away any right from any group," said USC Law Professor David Cruz. "The entire purpose behind the constitutional principle of equal protection would be subverted if the constitutional protection of unpopular minorities were subject to simple majority rule," read a brief by black, Asian & Hispanic groups challenging the ban. "This case is not simply about gay & lesbian equality", pointing to segregation laws & one excluding Asian-Americans from land ownership as examples.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081124/ts_nm/us_gaymarriage_minorities
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