Ah, California, you finally did something right.
"The evidence shows conclusively that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples."
Thank you, Judge Walker, for saying what Prop 8 supporters have been tap dancing around since the beginning. Homosexuals are not second class citizens, no matter how much you may dislike them, disagree with them, fear them, or just not understand them. Just because you have a slight majority (which still frightens me to no end), doesn't give you the right to oppress the minority. People can bitch about 'the people's will' being overturned by federally appointed judges (actually they can suck it as Kathy G would say), but they seem to be forgetting the ENTIRE PURPOSE of a judicial branch: to save us from ourselves. We may rule by the people in our wacky little country, but we have a constitution to protect us from our irrationality, our biases, and, frankly, to tell us when we're wrong. And boy, were you wrong, California.
Goodbye, Prop 8. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Thank you, Judge Walker, for saying what Prop 8 supporters have been tap dancing around since the beginning. Homosexuals are not second class citizens, no matter how much you may dislike them, disagree with them, fear them, or just not understand them. Just because you have a slight majority (which still frightens me to no end), doesn't give you the right to oppress the minority. People can bitch about 'the people's will' being overturned by federally appointed judges (actually they can suck it as Kathy G would say), but they seem to be forgetting the ENTIRE PURPOSE of a judicial branch: to save us from ourselves. We may rule by the people in our wacky little country, but we have a constitution to protect us from our irrationality, our biases, and, frankly, to tell us when we're wrong. And boy, were you wrong, California.
Goodbye, Prop 8. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.