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 Gay Rights Group Puts Marriage Fight on HoldPosted on Aug 12, 2009
Equality California, possibly the biggest gay rights group in California, will wait until the 2012 election to attempt to overturn the state’s gay marriage ban. The organization’s director says “we think we have one shot” and that it will take time to marshal the necessary forces. Other groups have their sights set on 2010. Equality California has been campaigning to overturn Proposition 8 since the measure passed last year, and the group has come to the conclusion that it needs more time. But waiting until 2010 to act with full force also means competing with a presidential election for attention and funding. Update: For interested readers, Equality California explains its reasoning in greater detail here.
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By anonymous, August 22, 2009 at 8:29 am Link to this comment
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I grew up without a father and it hurt me deeply.
Report thisThe consideration should be the best interest of the children (0ur society fall or stands on this).
Children need a mother and a father not two mommies and two daddies or uncle Joe. They will tell you that
kids or normal and adjusted but the harmful effects of not having both comes out as late as middle age.
Many people are in abusive relationships or have low self-esteem issues from the missing parent. Great if people say they don’t plan to have kids but the majority of married people will!
By RavenBurnes, August 14, 2009 at 6:35 pm Link to this comment
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.
Report thisBy hippie4ever, August 13, 2009 at 9:59 am Link to this comment
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.”
Report thisBy Mozzer75, August 12, 2009 at 10:25 pm Link to this comment
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?
Report thisBy Russian Paul, August 12, 2009 at 9:49 pm Link to this comment
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.
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