| ..attorney general's duty to defend the state's laws, and after gay rights activists filed legal challenges to Prop 8, which amended the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, he said he planned to defend the proposition as enacted by the people of California....after studying the matter, Brown concluded that "Prop 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional righ |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.
