What they didn’t count on was Barack Obama being elected president. Unlike John McCain, who would have turned the Supreme Court solidly conservative, Obama will have the opportunity to change the neconistic face of the court into a progressive, civil rights upholding, constitutional rights guaranteeing court.
The anti-same sex marriage people will soon find that the champagne they drank in celebration will turn to sour grapes in their bigoted stomachs.
They had to know that law suits fighting the passage of all these propositions were drawn up long before the first vote was cast, proof of which was the filing of three law suits the day after the election.
Law suits, peaceful demonstrations in cities across the country by gay activists is just the beginning of a long, hard fight.
Those opposed to same-sex marriage will find that the gay community, which is organizing itself en masse will be formidable opponents.
This must and will work its way up through the court system, beginning with challenges to California’s initiative process itself.
Changing California’s Constitution
Ballot initiatives are meant to tweak existing law, not change the state’s constitution.
To change the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote by both state houses, followed by a two-thirds vote of the people.
Before they are done, those against same-sex marriage better find themselves even more money and some very good lawyers to make their specious arguments before the United States Supreme Court.
A perfect example of which, is last week one of the largest anti-everything that isn’t in the Bible according to them groups had to lay off 20 staffers, because they spent $600,000 to tout Prop. 8. Amazingly, $600K is exactly what they pay their staffers, whose efforts added to the success of the ballot measure.
Talk about being ungrateful for what ye reap. Well, very few have ever said they aren’t anything but the biggest of hypocrites.
I believe it was the Family Research Council, but my best Googling couldn’t find the news story, even though it was all over the news last week.
Never being one to buy into the canard of “slippery slope,” I’m changing my mind. Just as smoking bans are constantly being expanded, and have led to going after the fatties and fast food, if the no-to-same-sex-people get their way, it’s a forgone conclusion that ultimately they will go after civil unions.
This is a matter of equal rights under law, and contrary to their claims that if gay couples are allowed to marry, life as we know it will cease to exist.
That won’t happen either. Since gay couples gained the right to marry in California in June, the Earth hasn’t stopped spinning on its axis, nor has the sun ceased to rise in the east.
