*
Calif. gay-marriage ban creates legal uncertainty
By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer
****I'm not an attorney but I know I have some pretty smart attorneys that visit here. Maybe they can help out. Some of the statements made by the protesters sound a bit odd to me. My comments in red.
****California voters Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment disallowing gay (homosexual) marriage. The measure, which won 52 percent approval, overrides a California Supreme Court ruling last May that briefly gave same-sex couples the right to wed. Activist judges overriding the will of the people.
****"I'm disappointed in the Californians who voted for this," said F. Damion Barela, 43, a Studio City resident who married his husband nearly five months ago. Married his husband?? He noted that nearly 70 percent of black voters and a slight majority of Hispanic voters voted for the ban.
"To them I say, 'Shame on you because you should know what this feels like," he said. I'm not at all sure that behavior and ethnicity are the same things at all. If that is the case, then I guess I have the "right" to get drunk since I'm an alcoholic. Quick, where's my martini glass and olives.
****Hundreds of protesters also gathered on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall, some holding candles and carrying signs that read, "We all deserve the freedom to marry." Obviously the majority don't believe that it is a "freedom" at all. If that is the case my cat and I are getting married tomorrow.
****Gay-marriage proponents filed three court challenges Wednesday against the new ban. Good! Clog up the court with frivolous lawsuits. The lawsuits raise a rare legal argument: that the ballot measure was actually a dramatic revision of the California Constitution rather than a simple amendment. A constitutional revision must first pass the Legislature before going to the voters. Well if it looks like an amendment and it's called an amendment it probably is an amendment. In order for it to be a revision something would actually have to be revised - wouldn't it? Just asking!
****"We don't consider it a 'Hail Mary' at all," said Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. "You simply can't so something like this — take away a fundamental right at the ballot." Now wait a sec, Katie. Where did you get this "fundamental" right? Maybe it was from that "living and changeable" document as our new President likes to call it.
****"I wish I could be comforted by Attorney General Brown's statement that it has no retroactivity," said Loyola Law School professor Bill Araiza, who married his same-sex partner Oct. 29. "But it's in flux and I just don't know." Well Bill, you're an attorney -shouldn't you know? And isn't Loyola a Catholic school? Oy vey! Read entire article here
Also read:
*
*
4 comments:
I am not a lawyer but I think the main argument homosexuals put forward is it shouldn't matter who your attraction is too, you should be allowed to marry them. The problem with this is brother and sister being attracted to each other is unnatural in the same way as homosexual attraction is and they certainly shouldn't be allowed to marry. Also once the wording one man and one women changes you open it up to many different marriage proposals including polygamy.
oops. Forgot to tick email follow up comments.
Auntie A-
While I, too, dislike activist judges who legislate from the bench, I would have rather seen the funding that went into pushing this amendment used for defeating Barack Obama and his culture of death.
The figure I heard was 40 million dollars. Do you know what we could have accomplished with forty million dollars? Probably a FULL HOUR of McCain/ Palin presentation on television in all fifty states!
adrienne, I like you very much and it really hurts to have to say something negative. However I read this and other blogs hoping to learn about Catholicism (that's how I found your blog in the first place. Do you think it is possible it has become obsessed with sex and politics?
You have every right to disapprove this or any other comment you wish, but I hope you will try to step back and get a perspective on this.
Post a Comment