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Prop 8 upheld, 18,000 same-sex marriages still valid

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  1. Martin

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    Hmmm, this should be fun. >.<
     
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    Nghhh. I really wanna know, but I kind of... don't wanna know at the same time. D:

    Have they already decided and just aren't gonna say what they decided until Tuesday? Politics confuse me.
     
    #2 GhostDog, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    Let's hope for the best.
     
    #3 Ben, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    Yeah I think that's what's going on.
     
    #4 Midnight Angel, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    i hope they dont uphold it...
     
    #5 Alex19, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    I'm torn on the issue. I don't want them to uphold it, but at the same time I think it would be amazing if it was knocked down in a 2010 referendum. Opponents really wouldn't have any leg to stand on then, whereas if it's overturned on Tuesday then they're going to accuse the courts of enforcing laws against the citizens will. But even then, I don't think it's fair that some couples should have to wait until 2010 before they have a chance of being married.

    Grr, mega torn on the issueeeee.
     
    #6 Martin, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    ^^exactly.

    although i'm not planning on getting married before 2010 anyway, i dont really wanna wait that long to know i wont have to go to another state, i mean, i love california, but if i cant live here, i wont.
     
    #7 paco, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    Keep your fingers crossed everybody! By the way, I got an e-mail about a possible National Gay rights march in Washington, DC in October. Wouldn't that be AMAZING?
     
    #8 beckyg, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    Will there be a live video feed for this like there was when the oral arguments were being presented to the judges?
     
    #9 Martin, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    ^Yeah I'd love too see that in Washington, DC if i wasn't only fifteen and could drive.
     
    #10 rainemc, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    I am hoping for the best!!!
     
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    I will see what I can find!
     
    #12 beckyg, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    Let's hope for the best. It would be amazing if it got overturned. It's def the right thing to do!!
     
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    awww, tuesdays are my hard days classe wise. busy all day from morning till night.

    For the people who had a chance to watch the live feed, werent most of the arguments for keeping prop 8 from religious groups promoting their religious views to the court?

    I dont remeber, but I heard most of the arguements against gay marriage were religiously based, or easy to counter.
     
    #14 Emberstone, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    i think it needs to be revoked but i can see a screw j0ob im always negative in life it keeps me safe and i see them upholding it which sucks and is against hman rights but it seems to be life of late in the world
     
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    Hopefully they rule against Prop 8. If they allow it to stand, I don't know how they will be able to reconcile it with the equal protection language in the California Constitution.
     
    #16 Nodnarb, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    what!? its this tuesday?

    odd this is the first ive heard of it... darn memorial day
     
    #17 mattypants, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    I still have, somewhere, my t-shirt from the 1994 March on Washington for gay and lesbian rights. As far as I know, that was the last time there was a major gay rights march in DC. It would be nice, 15 years later, to have another one :slight_smile:
     
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    Hopefully it will be overturned.

    Bigottry should not be written into law. and prop 8 is pure bigottry.
     
    #19 Emberstone, May 22, 2009
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    Re: Prop 8 ruling on Tuesday...

    I wonder what the mood feels like on castro street?
     
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