California's Prop 8 Ban on Gay Marriage Overturned! :)

[BSB Jason]

civil unions and marriage are not the same thing.
if you have two names for the same contract, then there is something different or you would have one name for the same contract.
the agrument that one is just like the other is wrong. can opposite-sex couples form civil union? if yes, then can same-sex couples get married? it is more than a matter of interchangable term.
there should be one contract with same rights and responsibilities.
it is the more just, the more exact and the more efficient thing to do.
not as a matter of faith, but as a matter of fairness!

thats a good point i didnt really look at it that way.

 

[another1]

i delected message that continued to milk the football analogy.

 

[JLipps4u]

if the backers of same-sex marriage had put in the time to gather more signatures, then they could have gotten an amendment to ban same-sex marriage. they went the easier route and got a law which was overturned, which they tried to protect by an amendment.
the easy way was not the best way for them to go.
they went for a fieldgoal, went they should have gone for a touchdown and run it in for two points.

You lost me here! LOL

 

[another1]

the long and the short of it is this.
if the ban had been written into the state constitution in the first place, then the state supreme court would have ruled that the amendment could not be reviewed.
the federal courts would have to rule in favor of a federal right to marriage to overturn the amendment.
by writing the ban into law, they opened themselves to state court review.
then by going for an amendment after the fact, they opened themselves to federal court review. in this circuit!
the time to stop gay marriage in california was before any had occurred, not after the fact. with an amendment and not a law.

the easy 3 points should have been touchdown (6 points), with a 2 point conversion.
the game would be over.

 

[JLipps4u]

Ok, got it!

 

[robyrob2]

thanks for the lowdown, i was confused, but now im good.