Posted on 12/20/2008 7:29:33 AM PST by Publius804
Calif. AG Urges Court to Void Gay Marriage Ban
SAN FRANCISCO – The California attorney general has changed his position on the state's new same-sex marriage ban and is now urging the state Supreme Court to void Proposition 8.
In a dramatic reversal, Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a legal brief saying the measure that amended the California Constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman is itself unconstitutional because it deprives a minority group of a fundamental right. Earlier, Brown had said he would defend the ballot measure against legal challenges from gay marriage supporters.
But Brown said he reached a different conclusion "upon further reflection and a deeper probing into all the aspects of our Constitution.
"It became evident that the Article 1 provision guaranteeing basic liberty, which includes the right to marry, took precedence over the initiative," he said in an interview Friday night. "Based on my duty to defend the law and the entire Constitution, I concluded the court should protect the right to marry even in the face of the 52 percent vote."
Brown, who served as governor from 1975 to 1983, is considering seeking the office again in 2010. After California voters passed Proposition 8 on Nov. 4, Brown said he personally voted against it but would fight to uphold it as the state's top lawyer.
He submitted his brief in one of the three legal challenges to Proposition 8 brought by same-sex marriage supporters. The measure, a constitutional amendment that passed with 52 percent of the vote, overruled the state Supreme Court decision last spring that briefly legalized gay marriage in the nation's most populous state.
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This is very good. This sets the stage up for a special election to throw out those CA SC judges. This is worth watching. People are already pissed off about other things.
Jerry Brown is the biggest bafoon in the state. The voters don’t count to him......unless he is running for office.
Every adult in CA and in the whole USA has an equal right to marry another person who is eligible to be married to them.
Eligible means a member of the same species, having reached the age of majority, capable of consent (not mentally incapacitated), free to choose (not under threat or coercion), capable of coition (an act of sexual intercourse), not already married to another person, not a direct blood relation (or whatever the prevailing definition of consanguinity and incest may be), and not of the same sex.
If, per Jerry Brown, the California Constitution requires everyone to free to marry anyone, then there is no reason to uphold any of those criteria. Not species, nor age, nor capacity, nor consent, nor number of spouses, nor consanguinity, nor ability to consummate a marriage act, nor monogamy, nor anything else.
It effectively degrades marriage via de-definition, just as effectively as you can de-define a crystal goblet by making it illegal to distinguish it in anyw ay from waxed cardboard, aluminum, or plastic.
Jerry Brown did his best earlier to defeat Prop. 8 by changing the wording of the proposition on the ballot (at least the heading) to try to make it sound unreasonable. Probably it would have won a higher majority of votes with the original heading.
When and where are the services?
Could you explain why you think marrying animals would be allowed and how the animal would enter into an accpeptable contract?
We must use the words that fit: Communist and Marxist.
Scratch a liberal and under his thin skin is a socialist. Dig a little deeper and you will soon find the Marxist nuclear fuel rod that drives everything he says and does.
Brown became know as moonbean because it was said he was the only governor at the time with his own space program. Brown had proposed that the state put up a communication satellite for emergencies and a statewide communication network. He was laughed at by ignorant idiots. Soon after Dukemejian came in and what did he do, put up a satellite. Of course, Duke is not looked at as crazy, just thoughful.
Hey California, you keep a turd like Jerry Brown around as long as you have, you deserve what ya get.
He is the perfect politician to represent you in fruitcake land.
The people voted. They decided they didn’t want to accept the homosexual agenda. Well the fools don’t know what they are doing so get the courts to throw out the will of the people.
When are some of these fools going to get lynched?
Leftist politicians do not represent or work on behalf of “the people.” They work only for the advancement of the leftist agenda and the destruction of free enterprise and our constitutional republic. This obvious flaunting of the clearly expressed will of the voters is ludicrous. Brown should be immediately removed by the governor, or the Cal state legislature. Naturally that’ll happen as soon as I win the Masters. The left continues to run this nation like dictators. Sooner or later the people will have to begin the second American revolution, or lose their rights forever.
What do you not understand about that, Jer?
How can a constitutional amendment be unconstitutional?
This is how the last one ended. So now it's up to the PEOPLE. If the people don't take up the cause no one will and they will fulfill their agenda in the end. They don't give up so we can't either.
I could be wrong however I thought brown had a roll in the final wording of the prop put on the ballot.
Let this CA thing go the way I think it will. There will likely be a special election for SC judges. The blacks, south americans, and us whites are not in a particulary good mood now. And when gays started assaulting people going to church, that hammer came down real hard from everybody. How about tolerance for people that read scripture and try to understand it in the place and time?
When the Romans invented the indoor swimming pool in Bath, England, John the Baptist jumped in for a swim. It's still the same. The cops would't let me and my buddy jump in.
Is there any reason for there not to be a recall effort of this leftist freak if such recall is possible with an attorney general?
Wrong
Let’s have a little context here. We are talking about government recognition of marriage. Some one comes along and says that people will want to marry animals. I point out how stupid that is. I assume you agree with me that that is ridiculous.
You may not realize it, but there is marriage of people who don’t hold your religious beliefs.
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