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Word to Wonder About — Eviscerate

By Gib | November 20, 2008

In all the Proposition 8 petitions from the side of the angels for marriage equality, I noticed a word crop up again and again about what the proposition would do if allowed as an amendment:  eviscerate.
Now, it appears, that the Fund people who put through the last version of the law but were only helpers [...]

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Proposition 8 Update

By Gib | November 19, 2008

There are several new lawsuits on the California Supreme Court website.  Including a lawsuit from a group of minority advocacy organizations, which want the constitutionality answered about amending the California constitution to remove fundamental civil rights from an unpopular minority.
Meanwhile, as of today, the justices have narrowed the suits and the questions they’ll answer.
The legal [...]

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Yes On Proposition 8 — Money to Burn

By Gib | November 18, 2008

Andrew Sullivan has been writing many posts about the Human Rights Campaign and their inneffectiveness in preventing the passage of Proposition 8 and altso their general lack of impact around marriage equality and civil rights — their raison’ d’etre.
Something that sort of blows my mind is that the No On 8 ads were so useless…. [...]

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The Mormons Underwrote a Lot of Non-Money Contributions and Didn’t Report Them

By Gib | November 14, 2008

It turns out that the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Days Saints (the Mormons) didn’t just walk the line separating church and state by advocating that all of their members volunteer time and donate cash to Proposition 8 and the slime campaign against marriage equality.
I wrote earlier about the movement to report the Mormons to [...]

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Proponents of Prop 8 Recycle Failed Arguments In Motion

By Gib | November 11, 2008

In their identical motions to intervene in the three petitions filed, thankfully, didn’t repeat all the nauseating reasons to deny marriage equality.
They did, however, seek to interpose themselves using the same arguments they already made to the California Supreme Court — which were rejected.
As I wrote earlier, the court denied their participation as parties to [...]

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New Lawsuits, New Couples

By Gib | November 10, 2008

Something that came to my attention in reading the initial three petitions was that there are new couples’ names listed on the petition from the ACLU and Lambda Legal.
Today, with the updated front page of the California Supreme Court, I couldn’t help but notice new documents have been filed.
The one that I don’t think I’ll [...]

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Why the Yes on Proposition 8 Folks Don’t Want to Go to Court

By Gib | November 10, 2008

As KipEsquire notes in one of his hasty stitches:

The litigation, in abstract terms, is not “No on 8 v. Yes on 8? but rather “Gays v. The California Government.” It is not clear whether the bigots are entitled to intervene in the litigation or even file amicus briefs.

I’m not a lawyer, but one of the [...]

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Life after Prop 8

By Gib | November 9, 2008

Nan Hunter has some excellent comments about life after Prop 8:
The place for our team to concentrate - the location of our greatest strength - is the non-marriage front. After all, if we had not had a Republican president and congress for these last years, we would have enacted ENDA in the first year or [...]

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Andrew Sullivan Says to Stop the Lawsuits

By Gib | November 7, 2008

One of the most successful bloggers in the whole blogosphere (who happens to be a happily married gay man with conservative politics as his focus) opines:
My advice to the marriage movement: educate, speak, reach out. Stop the litigating. Resist the impulse to revel in victimhood.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (November 07, 2008) - [...]

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Supreme Court Information for the new No On 8 Case

By Gib | November 6, 2008

The California Supreme Court does not have much information at all on the new, anti Proposition 8 lawsuit for preserving marriage equality and civil rights for all.
But I did find this minimal information so far on the case information listing:

Case Summary
Supreme Court Case: S168066
Court of Appeal Case(s): no data found
Case Caption: [...]

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