No minority group, regardless of its nature, should have its basic rights be dependent upon a “majority vote”.  I am African American and I do not want anyone voting on whether or not I should get full rights as a citizen. That should be a gimme.  I think homosexuals should be excused from paying taxes or any other mandatory government fees until they are treated like any other American citizen.

Russian, I agree that human rights do not belong in the ballot box, but unfortunately many years of republican misrule has created a pool of vicious reichwing judges who will not enforce the Constitution. The California Supreme Court has the ethical center of a crack house.

The movement continues: I guess the people on the payroll of Ethical California want a few more years of pay in order to survive the Depression. I guess I can’t blame them but we aren’t going to take “a few years off” in our fight for civil rights in this diseased and corrupt “republic.”

The pressure here should be on the President, not on local legislatures. President Obama can suspend the ramifications of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” with a simple Executive Order. Doing so would not REPEAL the policy, but simply render it inanimate by discouraging prosecution. OUR PRESIDENT has not done so. Therefore, the current gay agenda renders itself impotent - in the primetime of a (liberal?) democratic Presidency, we cannot even manage the smallest things. Why? Because the economy sucks? Because political capital has to be spent on health care?  What happened to fearlessness? What happened to promises?

I don’t see why they would wait. The longer we wait, the more this crap gets legitimized. The sad thing is, we shouldn’t even be voting on this, this is the responsibility of the courts.