Same-sex marriages

  More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! On YouTube Tuesday, May 26, 2009 will go down as an eventful San Francisco day, sunny, and yet dark, and one that saw a lot of people marginalized who didn’t want to be. But then, who does. Before I turn to who said what, and who got arrested, I stick my head right into the belly of the beast, the California Supreme Court’s decision. Today, in first upholding Proposition 8, the voter-approved initiative to make same-sex marriage illegal that passed in November 2008, and yet protecting the 18,000 same-sex marriages that ... Read Full Story

The landmark ruling on Proposition 8 and "Gay Marriage" has come down from the California Supreme Court! The Justices have rejected the challenges to Proposition 8 which sought to overturn the "Gay Marriage" ban in the State of California. However, in their lengthly opinion, the Justices ruled that gay couples married before the challenges proceeded to court, are entitled to remain married and that those unions shall be considered by the State of California as legal and binding. Findings & Opinion IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA KAREN L. STRAUSS et al., ) Petitioners, ) v. ) MARK B. HORTON, as State Registrar of ... Read Full Story

When the Supreme Court Struck Down Laws That Banned Interracial Marriages in 1967, Public Opposition to Such Unions Was Far Stronger -- and More Vicious -- Than Opposition to Same-Gender Marriages Is Today; Gay Leaders Have Made a Big Mistake in Not Going After Same-Gender Marriage Bans in Federal Court on the Same 14th Amendment Equal-Protection Grounds as the 'Loving v. Virginia' Case Opponents of same-gender marriage are increasingly running into a constitutional brick wall as a growing number of state courts are ruling that gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to marry. Yet gay-rights advocates have been derelict in not recognizing this ... Read Full Story

You may be surprised to hear me say this but I think the recent decision by the California Supreme Court to uphold Proposition 8 was a good thing: The California Supreme Court today upheld Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage but also ruled that gay couples who wed before the election will continue to be married under state law. Although the court split 6-1 on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the justices were unanimous in deciding to keep intact the marriages of as many as 18,000 gay couples who exchanged vows before the election. The marriages began last June, after a 4-3 state high ... Read Full Story

The Supreme Court ruled today that the ban on same sex marriage in California will be upheld. demonstrations were already being held in San Francisco before and after the ruling was announced. Turns out the protests are not going to only located across the bay. Prop 8 protests are scheduled in Concord, Walnut Creek, Danville and other surrounding cities. I made a point back in November to say that the fight for Prop 8 was not going away anytime soon. Chief Justice Ronald George wrote that Proposition 8 “by no means makes such a far reaching change in the California Constitution as to amount ... Read Full Story