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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Prop H8 Decision

From the LATimes:
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….

Only Justice Carlos R. Moreno, the court's sole Democrat, wanted Proposition 8 struck down as an illegal constitutional revision.

Disappointing, but entirely expected. We'll overturn the thing in 2010 after unloading obscene amounts of money Californians don't really have to spare -- mostly battling out of state would-be theocrats who don't know what year we're living in -- all in support of basic human rights that shouldn't be in question in the first place, but whatev, that's the process.

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