Courage Campaign: Meg Whitman won't be able to defend Prop. 8

Dan82 · Aug 21, 2010

http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2010/08/courage-campaign-meg-whitman-w.html

The gay rights group Courage Campaign played down Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's announcement yesterday that she would defend Proposition 8, which prohibits same-sex marriage, if elected governor.

Courage Campaign director Rick Jacobs noted that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already scheduled a hearing for the week of Dec. 6 to determine whether the initiative's sponsor, the advocacy group Protect Marriage, has legal standing to defend the voter-passed measure.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown have declined to join the list of defendants in the case. Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California, who declared the proposition unconstitutional Aug. 4, had suggested that only the state could defend the law.

If elected, Whitman would take the oath of office on Jan. 3, although it remains unclear whether she could join the lawsuit as a defendant after the December hearing.

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2010/08/courage-campaign-meg-whitman-w.html#ixzz0xHP2aPAI
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Jeremy · Aug 21, 2010

Hopefully all will go well in December. ...and I still hope she isn't elected regardless.

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