Attorney General, Governor, and nation’s top civil rights groups agree: Invalidate Prop 8
02.03.09—The California Supreme Court announced today that it will hear oral arguments on Thursday, March 5, 2009 in the Proposition 8 legal challenge. The National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal, and the ACLU—with support from civil rights groups, religious organizations, labor unions, and legal scholars—argue that Proposition 8 is invalid because the people of California have established strict safeguards that prohibit the underlying principles of the California Constitution from being changed by a simple majority vote. By taking away a right only from one group, Proposition 8 violates the most basic principle of our government: that all people are entitled to equal treatment under the law.
exactly one year + one day after first historic version — i remember it well!
i have the utmost faith in NCLR; thanks for holding us in good hands.
-m
Wish there would have been more suport for oppistion of the measure that changed the Oregon Constitution denying the members of the same gender the right to marry. We already had a very good antidiscrimination section in our constitution and it was written in 1857.
Keep going.
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