PROP 8 OVERTURNED
PROP 8 OVERTURNED
#2PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 4:46pm
And New York Magazine:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/08/judge_vaughn_walker_hands_vict.html
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 4:48pm
#3PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 4:48pm
Here's the decision! YWIW and Plum...start reading!
Woohoo!
Prop 8 Ruling
#5PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 4:49pm
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6PROP 8 OVERTURNED For Now...
Posted: 8/4/10 at 4:49pmGood heavens, can this actually be good news? Wow...
#7PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 4:50pm
I know it's a long legal road ahead. And it may end up not going our way (for the time being).
But today, we celebrate.
Thank God I didn't put mascara on today. I'm losing my SH*T at work right now.
#8PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 4:51pm
I'm almost scared to believe it.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35374801/Prop-8-Ruling
#9PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 4:59pm
"Plaintiffs have demonstrated by overwhelming evidence that Proposition 8 violates their due process and equal protection rights and that they will continue to suffer these constitutional violations until state officials cease enforcement of Proposition 8. California is able to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, as it has already issued 18,000 marriage licenses to same-sex couples and has not suffered any demonstrated harm as a result,see FF 64-66; moreover, California officials have chosen not to defend Proposition 8 in these proceedings.
Because Proposition 8 is unconstitutional under both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, the court orders entry of judgment permanently enjoining its enforcement; prohibiting the official defendants from applying or enforcing Proposition 8 and directing the official defendants that all persons under their control or supervision shall not apply or enforce Proposition 8. The clerk is DIRECTED to enter judgment without bond in favor of plaintiffs and plaintiff-intervenors and against defendants and defendant-intervenors pursuant to FRCP 58."
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#10PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:10pm
I'm ready to celebrate. Which one of you bitches wants to marry me?
#12PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:16pmI know the other side was already planning to appeal, and that there will be a long road ahead before it gets to the Supreme Court, but I'm extremely emotional right now. I'm trying to hold it together until after work...
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
EVIE
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#15PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:21pm
Been listening to my NPR station
http://www.scpr.org/
It appears that getting a stay from the 9th Circuit Court is a little tougher than I thought. Still do-able.
The are still discussing the issue with Pat Morrison. Worth a listen to.
#16PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:28pmWhat are the chances of them appealing and winning? This can't keep going back and forth. This needs to stay as it is. Oh, and has anyone thought about all that Mormon money spent in 2008? IMO,that's the best part!
#17PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:32pm
I got the feeling from listening to go-to law expert Erwin Chemerinsky that overturning it is indeed possible, but that it will be a lot harder if a stay is not issued.
The longer gay and lesbian people are allowed to marry, the harder it will be to overturn it.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#18PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:35pmThe Court used the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. It is 138 pages based on testimony and facts with a correct conclusion. The Supreme Court will likely make this a state's rights case and ultimately reverse.
#19PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:37pm
that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples
is not a proper basis for legislation."
--Page 134 of the ruling
#20PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:39pm
Which one of you bitches wants to marry me?
I'd loooooooove to marry you, Joe...but I just washed my hair.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#21PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:52pm
So is Human Rights Campaign going to take credit for this? Or GLAAD??
Maybe instead we can donate to Lamda Legal?
#22PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:52pm
THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY I'M TYPING IN ALL CAPS!
JOY FOR US!!!
#23PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 5:57pm
The "open-question" at present is if there is no stay issued by Friday... can same-sex marriage start happening again?
#24PROP 8 OVERTURNED
Posted: 8/4/10 at 6:06pmMaybe the president will change his mind now and support gay marriage.
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