Top Lawyer Urges Voiding California Proposition 8
The Attorney General, Jerry Brown said: 'Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification.'
Another brief filed by opponents to same-sex marriage asks that the roughly 18,000 marriages performed already be invalidated.
No matter how much they try, you can't legislate love. When Barack Obama was born, there were some states that would not have allowed his parents to marry. My own state would not allow it until 1967, when several laws throughout the US were overturned by the Loving v. Virginia decision. Bans on interracial marriage (called anti-miscegenation laws, by the way) are wrong, and so is banning same-sex marriage. It's a matter of basic rights, period. I firmly believe that in my lifetime bans on same-sex marriage will fall throughout the United States and gay couples will be free to express their committed love in the same way heterosexual couples can.
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