State May Vote On Gay Marriage Again In 2010

[FreeState]

Source: 10 News

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gay rights groups in California plan to ask voters to overturn the ban on same-sex marriage they approved last week if legal challenges to Proposition 8 are unsuccessful.

In an e-mail to supporters, Equality California executive director Geoffrey Kors said Wednesday that he and other gay marriage advocates are aiming for a ballot initiative to reverse the ban in two years.

Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that overruled the California Supreme Court that legalized same-sex marriage, passed 52 percent to 48 percent.

Couples who missed the chance to wed and others have filed petitions asking the court to throw out the measure on the grounds that voters did not have authority to enact such a sweeping constitutional change.

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[Maat]

1. That's about what I expected.

If our legal challenge doesn't work, then we will put it on the ballot until we repeal it.

Hopefully, the Court will issue a stay against Prop. 8's implementation until the Court hears the case 'on its merits.'

I cried for days after it passed; hopefully, some good will come out of this, and Californians will wake up, learn well, and never let something even remotely like this happen again.

[geomon666]

2. Good. Keep fighting the pigs.

They will cave. It's only a matter of time.

[sakabatou]

3. Two years.

Seems like a long wait for some.

[funEshun]

4. 2012

And if it's overturned in 2010, look for another ballot initiative by conservatives in 2012 (just as they did in AZ). Arizona turned it down in 2006, but they put it BACK on the ballot again in 2008. Don't stop fighting.

[Politicalboi]

5. This does not belong on a ballot

If this gets on a ballot then we need a vote on no divorces EVER. Let us gays decide how the straights live their lives for a change.

[customerserviceguy]

7. No divorces?

The fundies would sure go along with you ont that! We don't have to act like them, or even talk like them in order to fight them.

[xchrom]

6. i don't know what to say -- i am not a fan of the whole proposition movement --

-- or direct democracy -- however if this is the only recourse
left to the lgbtiq folks -- then this is what we have to do.