Great news! Proposition 8 was again ruled unconstitutional today by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California. This is great news for LGBT people, couples, and families across the country; these discriminatory, malicious, bigoted, mean-spirited, un-American laws are one step closer to being permanently consigned to the dustbin of history. Onward!
Rod says: My sentiments, exactly!...
“Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Today, I am proud too be a Californian!
They way the ruling was written, it will be hard….very hard, for the conservatives, if they have ANY conscience at all, to vote against it.
So Scalia (actually a citizen of the Vatican, and not a real American) and Alito (ditto) will vote against it, but, I am hopeful.
Also, as written, it will only apply to one state (albeit the largest by population) and not the whole 9th circuit…there is a SMALL chance that the Supreme Court might not take it up at all…we shall see.
It’s not a done deal, and as the stay remains, until such time Californian same-sex couples are actually freely marrying again I refrain from celebration.