RIP, Proposition 8

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Proposition 8 is dead.

The California Supreme Court pulled the plug Wednesday on any last hopes for anti-gay marriage proponents to resuscitate the law that banned same-sex marriage in the Golden State.

“Today’s decision reaffirms that all loving, committed couples, regardless of their sexual orientation, have the freedom to marry in every county across the state,” says John Lewis, Marriage Equality USA legal and policy director.

In closed session, the state supreme court “rejected arguments by ProtectMarriage, Proposition 8’s sponsors, that only an appellate court could overturn a statewide law,” the L.A. Times reported.

Proposition 8 backers are now out of legal challenges.

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7 comments

Skip Intro Thu, Aug 15, 2013 4:20:41pm

Proposition 8 backers are now out of legal challenges.

The hell you say. As the great Senator Blutarsky once said “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”

erik_t Thu, Aug 15, 2013 5:12:46pm

Well, no. No peaceful resting for Prop 8. May it live in infamy as a shameful example of trying to legislate the rights of a minority.

Charles Johnson Thu, Aug 15, 2013 5:54:13pm

Great news. Sanity restored.

EPR-radar Thu, Aug 15, 2013 6:11:20pm

re: #2 erik_t

Well, no. No peaceful resting for Prop 8. May it live in infamy as a shameful example of trying to legislate the rights of a minority.

One of the positive developments in US politics in recent years is that votes relating to LGBT rights are (finally) starting to go the right way.

This makes haters like Bryan Fischer very sad, which pleases me greatly.

XtremeDave Thu, Aug 15, 2013 7:06:04pm

re: #2 erik_t

Well, no. No peaceful resting for Prop 8. May it live in infamy as a shameful example of trying to legislate the rights of a minority.

Prop 8 joins Prop 187 and Prop 14 as reminders of the willingness of right-wing Californians to use the ballot box to unconstitutionally enact discrimination against other people as law. I hope that in the future Prop 8 will be as much of an embarrassment to this state’s history as the others are.

aagcobb Fri, Aug 16, 2013 4:40:13am

re: #5 XtremeDave

Prop 8 joins Prop 187 and Prop 14 as reminders of the willingness of right-wing Californians to use the ballot box to unconstitutionally enact discrimination against other people as law. I hope that in the future Prop 8 will be as much of an embarrassment to this state’s history as the others are.

I think it already is.

thecommodore Fri, Aug 16, 2013 9:20:23am

re: #5 XtremeDave

Prop 8 joins Prop 187 and Prop 14 as reminders of the willingness of right-wing Californians to use the ballot box to unconstitutionally enact discrimination against other people as law. I hope that in the future Prop 8 will be as much of an embarrassment to this state’s history as the others are.

It is abhorrent that the civil rights of certain segments of society are put on the ballot for everyone else to vote on. When have marriage rights, for example, of white christian men ever been put to a vote?

re: #2 erik_t