Proposition 8 Backers Try to Rescind 18,000 Legal Marriages

Mind your own business, Gladys!

Those bastards.  This is not about "protecting marriage." This is about being nasty.  The people behind California's Proposition 8 managed to convince just enough voters to enshrine predjudice into their state constitution, using fear and lies (and lots of dollars from the Mormons and Catholics) to do it. But they didn't manage to invalidate the 18,000 legal same-sex marriages that had already occurred.  They got largely what they wanted, but it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough that they essentially codified their religious belief into law--something wholly un-American--they've got to go even further.  These "protect marriage" people want to destroy mine. 

I hope they lose.  Not only that, I hope their loss is the first domino to topple barriers to same-sex marriage nationwide.  We deserve it, but they do too.  Maybe they'd finally get their noses out of other peoples' business.

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Opponents of same-sex marriage ask Prop. 8 judge to invalidate 18,000 marriages of gay couples.

As Judge Vaughn Walker prepares to hear closing arguments today in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the landmark case against California’s Proposition 8, supporters of the measure are urging him to “go a step further and revoke state recognition of the marriages of 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who wed before” voters stripped same-sex couples of their right to marry in November 2008. . .

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