nytimes.com - 11/18/2008
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The California attorney general said in a brief that a review of the constitutionality of Proposition 8 was necessary to provide closure. >
latimes.com - 11/19/2008
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latimes.com —
Reporting from San Francisco -- The California Supreme
Court agreed today to review legal challenges to Prop....
8, the voter initiative that restored a ban on same-sex marriage, but refused to permit gay weddings to resume pending a ruling. Meeting in ...
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Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban considered by California ...
courtinfo.ca.gov - 11/19/2008
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Hagel Slaps Rush
Taylor Marsh —
BY TAYLOR MARSH
War hero v. draft dodging, recovering drug addict. Via CNN:
"We are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh," Hagel said Tuesday during a ...
Prop 8 And California's Court
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Both supporters and opponents have asked for a judicial ruling on whether the initiative can stand. My own view is that it should stand, and the court should decline to reverse it. We lost. They won in a fair fight. No whining. With one caveat. Those civil marriage licenses already issued should not be revoked. I find the retroactive voiding of marriage licenses at once legally suspect and humanly cruel. If my own marriage license were suddenly deemed void, it would feel
like a very nasty attack on my own family. It is one thing to decide
that gay couples are barred from civil equality from now on, but to
reach back and strip couples who married in good ...
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nytimes.com 11/20/2008 — Responding to pleas from those on both sides of the issue, the California Supreme Court said that it would examine whether a voter-approved ban on same-sex unions was constitutional. >