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Around the City we saw signs, "8 is hate". Because it's a civil-rights issue involving a minority of the population, I can see how getting a majority of the people to vote for it is a problem. I don't know the details, but it seems that litigation is the way this can be resolved. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s turned around with movement's victory in the Supreme Court with Brown v. Board of Education (1954). When is a case going to be heard by the Supreme Court that will settle this issue?

posted on Nov 8, 2008 6:01 PM ()

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already commented on chris'and fredo: what happened with equal rights?
comment by itsjustme on Nov 10, 2008 7:48 AM ()
Let God decide! I hear he's a pretty fair and loving soul. Government needs to focus on the financial state of our country and the war, not affairs of the heart. (In my opinion)
comment by shesaidwhat on Nov 10, 2008 6:26 AM ()
Messy. Thanks for the explanation.
comment by stiva on Nov 9, 2008 3:36 PM ()
I really don't understand why people get so worked up over this - in terms of people who are against it. What does it matter? If it's wrong because God says it's wrong then He can handle it I would think. I just don't get it.
comment by kristilyn3 on Nov 9, 2008 1:17 PM ()
AJ says it good there.
comment by fredo on Nov 9, 2008 9:02 AM ()
I am not sure this issue will go before the Supreme Court since marriage is something that has always been controlled by the state. I think the best that could be done is that if someone challenged DOMA, a federal law making it permissable for one state to not recognize marriages performed in other states, which is part of tradition of respect of such rules between the states that is protected within the constitution.
Now that the California has changed its constitution there is nothing that can be done. It is legal to have such discrimination.
The question is whether the law or the constitution should ever allow a popular vote to institute inequality.
AJ
comment by lunarhunk on Nov 9, 2008 8:03 AM ()

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