CA Supreme Court Ruling

May 26, 2009 12:37

I fervently hope that homosexual couples everywhere can gain the right to marry and feel that the prohibitions against such are a disgusting stain upon our nation, but this recent ruling WAS NOT ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE. It was, in my opinion, the wrong ruling to make, but the justices were not ruling on whether homosexual couples deserve the right to ( Read more... )

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mariaklob May 27 2009, 01:20:30 UTC
Within the constraints of the state constitution, their ruling was entirely correct. (And I love that their opinion upheld all marriages performed before Prop 8 went into effect.)

But, yeah, a simple-majority referendum seems kind of easy for a change in the state constitution. To pass a law, sure. To alter the fundamental document? Errg.

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