When I got home from tonight’s Prop 8 decision rally I found Democratic Party of Orange County Chairman Frank Barbaro’s response to today’s Supreme Court ruling.
I don’t like the decision. It runs directly opposite our guarantees of equal protection and non-discrimination. The legal basis for the Court’s decision was very weak. I can only conclude that they were playing to the masses. I am equally upset that it was a 6 to 1 decision. If not a majority, I expected at least 2 or 3 justices to side with the anti prop 8 arguments. There were so many other “outcomes” that could have been chosen by the court but for some reason which we will probably never know they chose the most radical. I am happy for the some 18,000 couples whose marriages will be preserved but certainly don’t like the cluster ***** that will result. Whatever happened to “stare decisis”?????
Was this comment by Frank for public consumption or private? Was this part of an official press release?
For the record Reggie, I do not make a habit of posting comments from public officials made to me privately. Barbaro’s comments were in direct response to a media inquiry I made earlier today.