PROP 8: Open Letter to Repeal Marriage Ban
A community letter supporting a November 2010 ballot initiative to repeal Prop 8 – several OC organizations are signers. Fellow Activists and Supporters – The […]
Luis Hunag
Prop 8 Decision: HRC Weighs In
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfPNO7G7qqY&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Sandra Hartness of HRC has sent The Liberal OC this moving video and the following statement. Today’s Supreme Court decision hurts deeply, but we […]
Prop 8 Decision: Marriage For Some is Not Equality!
San Francisco — Today the California Supreme Court declared that Proposition 8, approved by the voters in November, is a valid amendment as was presented to […]
My Thoughts On The Pending Prop 8 Decision
The majority of pundits and lawyers are speculating that the CA Supreme Court will decide to uphold Proposition 8, which bans same-gender marriage in California, […]
Pre-Decision Day Gathering Tonight at Screening of OUTRAGE
Santa Ana, CA — ECCO, Harvey Milk Stonewall Democrats of Orange County, HRC, Orange County Equality Coalition, Team Courage and LGBT community allies are joining […]
When Faith and Beauty Queens Collide
“We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage,” Prejean said. I wish!
Iowa’s Same Sex Marriage Decision: What it Says and What it Means
In 1998, the Iowa legislature, capitulating to a well-funded national campaign against gay marriage, amended the state’s marriage statute to define marriage as a union […]
Thomas Jefferson On Proposition 8 (sort of)
From President Jefferson’s first Inaugural Address (1801), emphasis added: …bear in mind this SACRED principle, that though the will of the majority is in all […]
Prop 8: What’s Really at Stake for the California Supreme Court
The primary legal issue at tomorrow’s hearing before the California Supreme Court on the same sex marriage Prop 8 case is the narrow and extremely arcane question whether Prop 8 is an amendment to the state constitution or a revision of the state constitution. But appellate cases – and especially high profile and controversial appellate cases — are rarely decided on such narrow and arcane questions of law, even though lawyers and judges must pretend that they are. What’s really at stake in the Prop 8 case – and what will probably be the real deciding factor in the California Supreme Court’s decision – is the power and prestige of the California Supreme Court itself.