Awesome news from Cali: A federal appeals court has ruled that the homo-hatin’ same-sex marriage ban Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, garnering cheers from awesome people who are in favor of basic human rights and more grumbles from grumpy pants haters who now vow to take their battle to the Supreme Court. Listen to them seethe. From Huff Post:
“We are not surprised that this Hollywood-orchestrated attack on marriage — tried in San Francisco — turned out this way. But we are confident that the expressed will of the American people in favor of marriage will be upheld at the Supreme Court,” said Brian Raum, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal aid group based in Arizona that helped defend Proposition 8.
And now, a more reasoned opinion.
“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples,” states the opinion written by Judge Stephen Reinhardt, one of the court’s most liberal judges.
Celebrate. We won another one. And we’ll keep on winning.
YAY! Suck it, stupid christians!
But can we get five Supremes to agree? I hope so, I really do, but…
This fight isn’t over. I doubt it will be over in my lifetime. It’s sad, but I think even if gay marriage passed on a national level, the mormons and catholics will spend the next 100 years trying to undo it.
Your headline is misleading; California didn’t overturn Prop. 8, a federal appeals court did. Californian’s voted to enact Prop. 8, which banned gay marriage, and probably would again. A more accurate header would read “Federal court overturns California gay marriage ban.”
I’d like to see this as a victory, but with the current balance of the Supremes, the outlook is not all that rosy.
At some point it would be nice if minority rights weren’t put to a majority vote.
Ha ha — FUCK YOU, MORMONS!!