At the time, proponents of the bill praised it as one that would "outlaw marriages between homosexuals."Posted on 01/09/2009 7:35:05 AM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- California Attorney General Jerry Brown has become a hero to gay rights advocates - and a potential leader in the 2010 Democratic gubernatorial field - with his recent controversial decision to mount a legal challenge to overturn Proposition 8, the initiative approved by voters that banned-same sex marriage in California. But few remember that 32 years ago, when Brown was governor of California, he played a crucial role on the same issue - he signed the landmark bill that changed the state's definition of marriage from a contract between two persons to one specifically between a man and a woman.
At the time, proponents of the bill praised it as one that would "outlaw marriages between homosexuals."
The author of that bill, former Republican Assemblyman Bruce Nestande of Orange County, told The Chronicle this week that he wrote AB607 to specifically limit marriage to being between a man and a woman. He won support from conservatives such as state Sen. John Briggs of Fullerton, who would later author the notorious but unsuccessful Briggs Initiative that attempted to ban gays from working in public schools. Briggs carried Nestande's bill in the Senate and said it would "restore some sense of morality to the state of California."
Brown said Thursday that his decision to sign the bill, without comment, was largely technical - and "totally appropriate" for the time. He said he was simply clarifying "legislative intent" of the era, in which marriage was assumed to be between man and woman.
California code, he said, had been rewritten to be gender-neutral in the Reagan era, though "no one (of the same sex) had ever gotten married." Still, "Same-sex marriage was not the law of California prior to my signing the bill."
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The amendment doesn't outlaw "gay marriage" at all.
It only outlaws same-sex marriage and applies the same to gays as it does everyone else.
A gay man isn't allowed to marry another man and I'm not allowed to do so either and I'm not gay.
It's just that it bothers gays more than it does the rest of us.
A gay man can still marry a gay woman...so the law applies equally to them....why the feigned "victimhood"?
Silly voters! According to Mr. Brown and his gay friends, people who hold traditional views and morals shouldn’t have rights in this country! Only gays and libs can legislate their morality! Get that straight (so to speak) people!!
By backing an unpopular position that lost big time at the ballot box you become the front runner for governor!
Libtard logic at its best.
Why is Brown catering to the sodomites? Do sodomites really have that many votes?
few remember that 32 years ago, when Brown was governor of California, he played a crucial role on the same issue - he signed the landmark bill that changed the state's definition of marriage from a contract between two persons to one specifically between a man and a woman... Brown said Thursday that his decision to sign the bill, without comment, was largely technical - and "totally appropriate" for the time. He said he was simply clarifying "legislative intent" of the era, in which marriage was assumed to be between man and woman. California code, he said, had been rewritten to be gender-neutral in the Reagan era, though "no one (of the same sex) had ever gotten married." Still, "Same-sex marriage was not the law of California prior to my signing the bill."
The Attorney General of California Should
Immediately Return to Earth on the Next Inbound Shuttle
The Minority Report | Posted on December 23rd, 2008 | .cnI redruM
Posted on 12/23/2008 4:54:39 PM PST by .cnI redruM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2153485/posts
{AG Jerry “Moonbeam” } Brown first in decades to go against voters
San Francisco Chronicle | 12/24/8 | Bob Egelko
Posted on 12/24/2008 7:48:35 AM PST by SmithL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153759/posts
Gross Dereliction of Duty
(California Attorney General Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown’s Prop 8 brief)
National Review Online | December 23, 2008 | The Editors
Posted on 12/27/2008 8:27:25 PM PST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155090/posts
California AG Refuses to Defend State in Lawsuit against Prop 8
A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative | 26 Dec 2008 | John Semmens
Posted on 12/29/2008 11:45:06 PM PST by John Semmens
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2156011/posts
Jerry Brown wins praise, criticism for stance on Proposition 8
Sacramento Bee | 1/5/9 | Peter Hecht
Posted on 01/05/2009 10:17:49 AM PST by SmithL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159077/posts
Prop. 8 proponents call Jerry Brown ‘profoundly wrong’
SF Gate | January 5, 2009 | John Wildermuth
Posted on 01/05/2009 7:44:48 PM PST by Baladas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159395/posts
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Gays Vandalize San Francisco [Catholic] Church
(Gays Angry Over Prop 8 Paint Swastikas On Church
Spero News | 1/5/2009 | William Donohue
Posted on 01/06/2009 6:56:41 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159565/posts
The Catholic church does not like Newsom. Surprise!
SFGate: City Insider | 1/7/9 | Erin Allday
Posted on 01/07/2009 4:42:29 PM PST by SmithL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2160603/posts
Influx of black renters raises tension in Bay Area
AP via MyWay News
Posted on 12/31/2008 5:18:07 AM PST by gjones77
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156626/posts
> As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren. In 2006, as the influx reached its peak, the police department formed a special crime-fighting unit to deal with the complaints, and authorities began cracking down on *tenants in federally subsidized housing*. Now that police unit is the focus of lawsuits by black families who allege [Antioch] the city of 100,000 is orchestrating a campaign to drive them out.
No, but sodomites are the squeakiest of wheels and the squeaky wheels get out and vote. The Prop 8 vote was 52.3 to 47.7 passing - by voters.
If and when Prop 8 is upheld, let the sodomites put up their own constitutional amendment saying that homosexuals should be allowed to marry each other. The amendment will fail big time.
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