As the trial over California's prohibition on same-sex marriage enters its final stage today, the ban's sponsors are urging the judge to go a step further and revoke state recognition of the marriages of 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who wed before voters passed Proposition 8....
Andrew Pugno, an attorney for Prop. 8's backers, said in an interview that the sponsors aren't asking Walker to nullify the 18,000 marriages, but only to rule that government agencies, courts and businesses no longer have to recognize the couples as married.....
Gay rights advocates argued that the unequal treatment of couples who married at different times was one of many reasons to overturn the ballot measure. But Cooper said Tuesday there was a better way to treat both groups of couples equally while respecting the people's will - "sustaining Proposition 8 by giving it retrospective effect," that is, deny state recognition to the pre-election marriages.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Breaking: Prop8 defendants seek to revoke recognition of MY marriage
From the SF Gate:
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Actually the more outrageous the Prop8 backers are the better it is for our side. But I don't doubt this cuts like a knife. . . I am so sorry you have to go through this.
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I think that the Prop 8 people overreached. Invalidating an existing contract is not the same thing as barring a proposed contract, and judges tend not to be thrilled with retroactive nullifications of contracts legal at the time they were made.
I don't think it's actually on the cards, but that they bring it up is a kick in the gut. Asshats.
Their entire defense was "procreation". I tell ya, it's all women-as-breeders and the handmaid's tale!
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