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The License......Prop 8

Jun 2, 2009
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BREAKING: CA Supreme Court to issue prop 8 decision TUESDAY

May 23, 2009
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Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend because when it’s over the California Supreme Court will issue its ruling on Tuesday, May 26, at 10am pacific time on the constitutionality of Prop 8.
To understand the legal issues at hand and the questions being decided by the court, HRC’s Legal Director and Chief Legislative Counsel Lara Schwartz came up with this fantastic analogy:
Voters can make minor changes to the California constitution through initiatives. Major changes require a longer process.
It helps to think about this in terms of renovating your home. If you want to paint your house, you just go to the store and select a color, then paint. But if you want to add on to, structurally change, or even demolish your house, you need to get a permit, and typically the work gets done by a licensed professional. Why? Because when you’re dealing with the bearing walls and the structure, you need to take care with what you’re doing, or the whole thing can tumble down. And people can get hurt.
It’s the same with a constitution - through the initiative process, you can embellish and clarify, but you can’t move a bearing wall, not without a deliberative process.

D.C. Council Votes 12-1 to Recognize Other States' Gay Marriages

May 5, 2009
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UPDATE 2: After further debate, a second vote was taken, with D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) deciding to vote against the proposal. The final count is 12-1 in favor of recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states.
UPDATE: D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) has now asked that the gay marriage bill be reconsidered. He didn't realize what he was voting on before.
He just gave a speech saying he is going to vote against it so it won't be unanimous vote. The council is now debating the bill.
"I don't think it works for us to try to artificially try to put it in the Human Rights Act," said council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large), a supporter of gay marriage. "I have told the GLBT community that they have to make sure there is the public support for this. . . . If there is not, we can try all the maneuvering we want and still be in trouble."
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