prop 8 supporters want retroactive nullification of gay marriages

[SwampG8r]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The sponsors of Proposition 8 asked the California Supreme Court on Friday to nullify the marriages of the estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who exchanged vows before voters approved the ballot initiative that outlawed gay unions.
Proposition 8's supporters assert that the Supreme Court lacks the authority or historical precedent to throw out the amendment.
"Proposition 8's brevity is matched by its clarity. There are no conditional clauses, exceptions, exemptions or exclusions," reads the brief co-written by Kenneth Starr, dean of Pepperdine University's law school and the former independent counsel who investigated President Bill Clinton.

"For this court to rule otherwise would be to tear asunder a lavish body of jurisprudence," the court papers state. "That body of decisional law commands judges - as servants of the people - to bow to the will of those whom they serve - even if the substantive result of what people have wrought in constitution-amending is deemed unenlightened."

[Cattledog]

1. They don't have to do that

50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce in America!

[liberalmuse]

2. That's just so evil. Perhaps...

'Gays' should designate themselves as 'fetuses'. Then they won't have to worry about these asshats persecuting them. Hell, they'll get rights above and beyond any sentient being.

If one more person tells me evangelical Christians are 'good people', I'm likely to get violent.

[Selatius]

3. While we're at it, we should set up concentration camps for "re-education" to get them heterosexual.

These people are truly authoritarian.

[SwampG8r]

4. i thought the constitution prohibited retroactive enforcements

[Danger Mouse]

6. i hope so. the scum.

[Danger Mouse]

5. Fuck them. Fuck them hard. Bastards.

:grr:

[Joe the Revelator]

7. That....

is seriously fucked up.

[AtomicKitten]

8. Jerry Brown has filed a brief challenging the constitutionality of Prop. 8

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/17/BAGP1467MF.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1

[Clio the Leo]

9. THIS is what we need to be focused on!!!! THIS is the OUTRAGE!!!!

(and as a reminder, "focused on" does NOT mean "to concentrate on to the exclusion everything else" it means "give heightened importance to." ;) )