On Families and Overturning Prop 8(hate)

Truthandhope.org is working on ads to help in the campaign to overturn prop 8. Here's one about families and grandkids with a great awwww quotient.

help them spread the word.

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BREAKING: California Supremes uphold h(8), existing marriages

According to the SF Chronicle, the California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 to uphold Proposition 8, but also decided that the 18000 or so gay marriages performed are valid and will remain so.

This is exactly the slicing and dicing predicted by many commentators. The RWAs can remain happy in their ability to remove fundamental rights from an oppressed minority, the progressives can remain happy that nobody had their marriages annulled. A new constitutional amendment will undoubtedly be on the Cali ballot in 2010 and will remain so until it passes and sticks. Time and demographics are on the side of liberalism in this case.

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Important Decision Coming on the Gay Adoption Ban in Florida

The patriots and heroes of the ACLU have been fighting hard to overturn the florida ban on Same sex, or gay individuals adopting. The case they have laid out is serious, well researched and strong.

There is an excellent diary about it on Kos. The gist of it is;

To make the case that Florida’s ban was based not on science but on ignorance (at best), we assembled what is probably the finest collection of child welfare, psychology, sociology and medical experts on these issues ever presented to a court. They included (among others): Dr. Michael Lamb, a world-renowned expert on children’s development, who is formerly the Chief of the Section on Social and Emotional Development at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and now chair of the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University; Dr. Anne Peplau, a Professor of Psychology at UCLA and a leading authority on couple relationships; Susan Cochran, a psychologist and epidemiologist at UCLA's Department of Public Health, and a leading authority on the demographics of health and psychology; and Dr. Frederick Berlin from Johns Hopkins, probably America’s foremost authority on child sexual abuse.

We used this remarkable cast to establish not just that the state was wrong about gay people as parents, but that no thinking person who understood the science does — or could — disagree. In that, our experts were materially aided by the experts for the state.

Here’s what our team established: The science does show that while gay people as a group have higher rates of depression and substance abuse, other demographic characteristics (including ethnicity and income) correlate with similar or even higher rates. However, these groups are not excluded from adopting. Those problems occur in every population group. That is why adoption systems are designed to screen individuals and not to rely on group generalizations.

This has to be overturned. It is the worst kind of legislation based on fear, ignorance, and bigotry. If you are as proud of the ACLU and their efforts as I am, send them some love today.

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Proposition (h)8 Post

Jurassic Pork at "Welcome Back to Pottersville"

Remembers the days of the Stonewall Inn.

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California: No on 8

Miscegenation laws were declared unconstitutional in California by the State Supreme Court in 1948. Let's not waste our time passing a new one. No on 8!

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Breaking: California Upholds Gay Marriage

The Supreme Court of California Approves Gay Marriage (4-3)

The 172 page opinion is here. The first 11 pages contain the flavor of the ruling.

1. This ruling is from the Supreme Court of California. It can not be over-ruled by any other Court. It is law, as of now, in California.

2. GLBT folk in California may go get married. Right now.

Well, probably in a day or so. The bureaucracy must be properly (and officially) notified of this ruling. But then. And it will be a legal marriage.

3. There will be an initiative in California this fall to amend the Constitution to prohibit Gay Marriage. The initiative has enough votes to get on the ballot. This is going to drive turn-out. Gov. Arnold has already said he opposes the initiative.

4. The Court ruled on equal-protection grounds. That classifying or discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation is a protected class (such as race or gender) and therefore must be subject to strict scrutiny. That is, the State must a) demonstrate a compelling Constitutional requirement to do what it is doing, and b) that the way in which it acting is necessary. The State of California's law as written, was neither. Therefore, FAIL.

Welcome to the family of marriage, my sisters and brothers.

Today is a joyous day.

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