"The history of California demonstrates with sobering clarity the potential for disfavored minorities to be subjected to oppression by hostile majorities," the minority groups say in their brief, pointing to segregation laws and one excluding Asian-Americans from land ownership as examples.
'TRACK RECORD'
"It is not hypothetical. It's a track record," said Stanford University law professor Jane Schacter, who has not filed briefs in the case.
The context of the article is the recent passage of Proposition 8, which was created initially to shore up Prop 22. Lawsuits found their way into state courts and it was inevitable that one day a lawsuit would find its way to a liberal activist judge, (BlogWatch), who would use it to write law. This is what took place while the signatures for Proposition 8 were being submitted to the state to appear on the ballot; the required signatures had already been collected.
Peter Henderson, draws people to the point that people should submit to the power of the elite by making claims that are unsupported ... He starts the article off with
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's gay marriage ban could open the door to legal discrimination against unpopular groups if the state Supreme Court allows the voter-approved measure to stand, blacks, Latinos, Asians and other minorities said.
The article drops several names while making its case attempts to use the words of a supporter of prop 8 Andrew Pugno who when googled actually said, "These same groups filed an identical case with the California Supreme Court months ago, which was summarily dismissed." Pugno is against the court making changes to the constitution which the people of California do not desire.
The other names when google show the people to be white law professors who have been outspoken on the topic for months; appearing (apparently exclusively - based on google news search) in articles against prop 8.
I am not going to take a dishonest tack as Peter has. A Democratic Republic is not perfect; It is also an established fact that alternative authoritain governments are not perfect either.
Democratic Republics have shown themselves to be arguably better in every case than those ruled by elite people of power.
Concern over changing the constitution with the drop of a hat is a valid one, the change happened in May of 2008 not November. The change happened by the court over reaching its authority, no due-diligent consideration or arguements were made on what the impact would be on parental rights, religious rights, business rights or any other rights as should take place when writing legislature. Prop 8 restores the law to what existed before the court removed prop 22 and every other law concerning marriage. Prop 8 places California with the majority of states that specifically define marriage - removal of prop 8 would include California into a group of with only two other states were elite government authority overrides the will of the people and the will of the creator.
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- The Guy in the Window
- With Homosexual 'Marriage' Christian Freedoms Will be Under Greatest Threat in Hawaii, Wisconsin
A new study by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has found that over 350 separate state anti-discrimination laws would likely be affected by the legal recognition of same-sex "marriage." The organization surveyed over 1,000 state anti-discrimination laws -- specifically those prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender, or marital status -- to assess how those laws would affect religious dissenters to same-sex "marriage" if same-sex "marriage" were to be legally recognized. Based on the data, The Becket Fund concluded that ...
- Stop the ACLU
- ACLU Attacks Proposition 8, California, and the Concept of Democracy
The California Supreme Court amended the state/s constitution to find a right for homosexual marriage. Then the people of California used the same constitution for an initiative to define marriage in the constitution as between one man and one woman. Having lost that vote, the ACLU has attacked again, demanding that the courts again overrule the sovereign people and again force the issue on the people.
- Political Vindication
- Liberal Intolerance #112: eHarmony Forced To Submit To Gay Lobby
CNN. com has the details ...
Online dating site eHarmony will create a service for same-sex matching in a settlement of a 2005 complaint that the company's failure to offer such a service was discriminatory.
- The Steady Drip
- Now they confess! Boycott Media Alert
The mainstream media's support for Barack Obama's presidential campaign was so biased that even major insiders are now admitting they were shocked by its depth and depravity.
- The Liberty Sphere
- Obama's Pravda
Pravda was the official state-approved news agency of the Communist Party Politburo in the USSR under Lenin, Stalin, and a host of other Soviet presidents.
In the early days of the Communist government in Russia, the Politburo consisted of 5 members--Lenin, Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Nikolai Krestinski.
- Christian Coalition of America
- Now they tell us
One after another, members of the left-wing and thoroughly corrupt "Old Media" are admitting their terrible bias during the 2008 presidential campaign for Barack Obama, too late for the country to do anything about it. Mark Halperin from "Time" magazine -- which for decades has been spinning the left-wing line -- admitted last week that the media's coverage of the campaign was "disgusting." Of course, this admission by a key political reporter for "Time" magazine has not yet appeared in the actual magazine, and it has about as much chance of being published as "a snowball's chance in .... " The odds of a CBS or NBC anchor or a "New York Times" reporter or editor admitting such guilt is even worse.
- The Lonely Conservatives
- The Big Lie
"The failed economic policies of the last eight years." We've head that line quite a bit lately. Does anyone remember the recession George W. Bush inherited? It was after the 'dot com bubble' burst. George W. Bush's economic policies weren't so bad then, were they? Then we had 9/11 and another downturn in 2003. Today those times are just barely blips on the radar of economic downturns.
- Stop the ACLU
- Time's Halperin Scolds Press for 'Extreme Pro-Obama Bias'
The Politico reported on November 22 that Time Magazine's Mark Halperin scolded the media for it's sycophantic treatment of Barack Obama during this election cycle calling the favorable treatment "the most disgusting failure" of the press he's seen for years. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage," Halperin said at a Politico/USC conference held on Friday.
- Jennifer Roback Morse
- Prop. 8 opponents rejecting democracy
According to a conservative media watchdog, the mainstream media is completely ignoring a wave of quasi-fascism that has descended upon California and several other states by radical homosexual activists who don't respect the will of the people.
Brian Fitzpatrick, senior editor at the Culture and Media Institute, recently wrote a column called "Crouching Fascism, Hidden Media." ...
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