SF City Attorney To File Legal Challenge To Prop 8
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― The San Francisco City Attorney's office says he plans to challenge the validity of a ballot measure that would change the state constitution to ban gay marriage.
Spokesman Matt Dorsey says City Attorney Dennis Herrera will file the legal challenge in the California Supreme Court if the measure passes.
With 95 percent of precincts reporting, Proposition 8 is leading with 52 percent of the vote. But there are still as many as 3 million ballots left to be counted.
The first lesbian couple to be married in Los Angeles County after the Supreme Court threw out the gay marriage ban also plans to announce a lawsuit against Proposition 8. Attorney Gloria Allred says that lawsuit will argue that the measure is unconstitutional.
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12 years ago
I just found you through We Are Fambly and had to stop by. We're in the North Bay and got married this year as well.
ReplyDeleteWe are heartened by the lawsuits that are already coming forward, and hope like crazy that somehow we are going to defeat this hideous legalization of discrimination.
Apparently the Attorney General of CA is saying marriages ALREADY performed will remain valid. But I'm guessing that will be a fight too. I'm just so tired of arguing this. I won't give up, but I'm tired of defining my family as a "gay" family instead of just a family. Why can't they see that?
ReplyDeletebah!
ReplyDeletea family is a family is a family.
love you!
ps. love your new header!