The Prop8 ruling has catalyzed the core of the gay rights movement. In California , judge Vaughn Walker overturned the voter-approved measure which banned gay marriage in the state. San Francisco with the support of gay couples challenged the law, and successfully got it overturned.
An appeal has been filed, and we expect that the issue will make it all the way to the US Supreme Court before all is said and done.
The Senate Race in California is already setting up a debate, with Republican hopeful and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina stating that she’s against the judges ruling, citing that voters in California spoke their desires. Barbara Boxer disagrees with her opponent, and cites that it’s an important step towards equal rights.
Diane Feinstein, another Senator from California who is not up for re-election right now is also supportive of the recent ruling.
While many are against the ruling, many are for it as well. Gay rights is our modern-day civil rights movement, and it will be interesting to see how this case impacts the rest of the country
You headline implies that Barbara Boxer disagrees with Judge Vaughn's ruling, but you article suggests that she agrees with it. Which is it?
ReplyDeleteyes, very awkward headline considering Box agrees with ruling.
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ReplyDeleteI guess Carly Fiorina will work to overturn the 14th amendment, if she gets elected....
ReplyDeleteI guess now anyone can get married to same sex partners and collect social security etc. regardless if they really are together. Anything goes. Now illegals can marry same sex friends and collect benefits....who said they have to be gay...
ReplyDeleteThere is no scientific or medical evidence that anyone is born gay. All evidence is that it is environmental. Therefore there is no comparison between gay rights and rights based on gender or race. Anyone can change orientation if they really wish, and countless thousands have done so successfully. Gay activists arguments have always been bogus and based on pseudo-science like Kinsey's. Every culture from the beginning of time put restrictions on homosexuality, and not just in the west, because all recognized heterosexuality as ideal. That having been said, the constitution probably does provide that civil unions should have the same political rights as marriage. Marriage is by definition heterosexual. Homosexuals can have civil unions. Popular referendums, with all adults voting, are sacred. No appointed judge has the right to trash democracy as Vaughn has done. If there had been popular referendum in Mississippi during Jim Crow, black civil rights would have triumphed because the black population was in the majority.
ReplyDeleteJames, you are living proof that religion is the cause of ignorance. The stupidity of people that think they have a civil right to discriminate against others. The truth is you and the small minded people like you are NOT REAL AMERICANS. Real Americans believe in liberty and justice for ALL.
ReplyDeleteOh James, no one has to be a Mormon or a Catholic, they can realize they are all just sick, twisted cults and give that unatural lifestyle up. They sure where not born that way, it is a choice.
ReplyDeleteOn a planet with soon to be 9 billion people, heterosexuality is not ideal.
ReplyDeleteEvery gay male I have ever personally known has had an estranged relationship with his father from a very young age. They have a kind of an "unrequited love" for their fathers, which makes me believe that no one is born gay rather it is a result of family dynamics, especially, a sort of dysfunctional father-son relationship that gay men are looking to correct to receive, symbolically, the love or approval they sought and never got from their own fathers through their love and approval by other gay men. A psychological term that could be used to describe what is happens is transference.
ReplyDeleteI think I heard that Judge Vaugh Walker was a Bush appointee to the bench. I didn't hear which President Bush, the father or the son, but whichever, the Bush presendencies have been a disaster for the U.S. on two fronts: the wars (Bush junior) and court nominees (Bush senior) Who can forget Supreme Court Justice David Souter-- one disastrous legal decision after another -- know wonder he retired early and thank goodness that he did! And now Judge Vaughn Walker (I'm assuming it was Bush senior who appointed him). As for me, I will not vote for a Bush ever again, even if it is for dog-catcher. No Bush dynasties in the U.S. Although they did support pro-life causes. A Good Thing!
ReplyDeleteThe quest for civil rights for African and Native Americans continues as too many of these people live in poverty and are surrounded by racism. Until the Gay movement recognizes and helps support their continued quest for civil rights, there is no way gay issues represent the "new" civil rights movement, forgetting this historic cause. How shallow...
ReplyDeleteJudge Vaughn Walker was first nominated by Reagan, was blocked by Boxer who thought him to be too conservative, then finally nominated and appointed by Bush Sr. He is a constitutional conservative, not a liberal/progressive, nor is he by any means an activist. Read some of his decisions and that becomes clear. Directed to James: Referendums have been overturned before. There are many examples of popular votes being tossed out as unconstitutional in our history. An example would be when California approved a ballot measure to ammend the state constitution in such a way that would allow discrimination in housing based on race. Unconstitutional=overturned. As to civil unions James you are close but not on game. Civil marriage is actually more dead on. That is of course versus a religious marriage. Here an example is if one has a religious marriage in the Catholic church. On ending the marriage, if the church will not grant the divorce the couple is considered still married by the church and any state granted divorce that is obtained is not accepted by the church. Thus the second marriage would have be a civil marriage. The church would not marry either one of the couple again. No religion can or should ever be forced by the state to perform a marriage that is objected to- same sex or otherwise. That is the separation of church and state. The mental jump for everyone today is the understanding of civil marriage as opposed to religious marriage. When people begin to understand that their religious convictions of who their church or denomination marries is respected by the state, the issue of civil marriage becomes a non-issue. We have some growing up to do and some healing, but we are a tough nation and have come through slavery, sufferage and integration only to be stronger. One day this will be another footnote to history, although I don't think we will all be joining hands and singing for some time....
ReplyDeletePetty. Most homophobic individulas are as obsessed with gay people as an obese person is obsessed with food.
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