Congratulations California Supreme Court! In one fell swoop you have allowed bigotry and hatred to win in California, and you have made yourselves irrelevant.Was this not the same Supreme Court who one year ago said that marriage for same-sex couples was a fundamental right? One that could not be subject to the ballot box? Were those not your exact words?
What happened? Are you so afraid of recall that you bowed to the "will of the people?" By doing so, you have abdicated your constitutional authority. No one has to listen to you. We'll just vote on it.
At this very moment, there is a group circulating a petition to get a proposition on the ballot which would take away automatic citizenship from children born on American soil to non-citizens (translate: Mexicans). This is in clear violation of the US Constitution which guarantees that any child born on US soil is automatically a US citizen. They'll get the signatures. And it will probably pass, because illegal immigrants aren't very popular in California right now. How will you rule then?
Even though it is unconstitutional, I'll sign the damn petition if it comes my way. And, I'll vote for the proposition. Because if my rights can be taken away so easily, I'm all for taking away everyone else's rights too.
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I see on MSNBC, CNN, et al, that pro same sex marriage groups in California will put a measure on the ballot in 2010. So if that should happen to pass, will the anti same sex marriage group put another measure on the ballot in 2012? Where does it end? Why doesn't the California Assembly get some balls and change the law? Californians, has a really screwy system.
As for denying citizenship to the children of immigrants born in the US, that is being taken up by a nutcase from Georgia, on the national level.
Hate has no bounds. I'm moving to Canada.
exactly. We get prop h8 repealed then two years later the haters get it back on the ballot again. you're married. you're not married. you're married. it's ridiculous. btw, the california legislature has twice passed a marriage equality bill only to be vetoed by arnold.
ps. national law will hopefully eventually overrule state marriage laws.
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