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A despicable human being in the news again. - davester - 12-20-2008
Interesting. Didn't the Prop 8 sponsors state during their campaign that they weren't hateful and would not attempt to foist the new law on those who had already gotten married? Guess what....THEY LIED! Now they're trying to rip apart 9,000 families.
Associated Press wrote:
The sponsors of Proposition 8 asked the California Supreme Court on Friday to nullify the marriages of the estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who exchanged vows before voters approved the ballot initiative that outlawed gay unions.
"Proposition 8's brevity is matched by its c
larity. There are no conditional clauses, exceptions, exemptions or exclusions," reads the brief co-written by Kenneth Starr, dean of Pepperdine University's law school and the former independent counsel who investigated President Bill Clinton.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/19/state/n150241S64.DTL
Re: A despicable human being in the news again. - JoeH - 12-20-2008
Why does it not surprise me that Starr is also connected with this?
Re: A despicable human being in the news again. - MacGurl - 12-20-2008
What a bunch of bastards.
Re: A despicable human being in the news again. - mikeylikesit - 12-20-2008
On the other hand the California Attorney General reversed his position. When initially passed, Jerry Brown, declared the states intent to oppose challenges to Proposition 8, yesterday he announced a reversal of position. The State of California will support challenges to the Proposition while Ken Starr will oppose.
Everything about that just seems so right.
edit: to change Lay to Starr. I always considered them interchangeable.
Re: A despicable human being in the news again. - vision63 - 12-20-2008
He thought it would be illegal for him to not "support" it hoping that the Supremes would overturn it. I think he also felt that he could botch his support. But Ken Starr changed things.
Re: A despicable human being in the news again. - mick e - 12-20-2008
It's not enough to DENY equality to a group of people. These as$holes need to REVOKE it from the few who were able to secure it.
In the name of Jesus.
Re: A despicable human being in the news again. - Ted King - 12-20-2008
I hope this move backfires in the sense that it accelerates the inevitable - that California voters will change course and give gay couples treatment equal to heterosexual couples. I suspect that there may be at least a couple of percent of people who felt ambiguously enough before they voted for Prop 8 that the injustice of this move will tip them the other way (although activities by gay activists may play an equal or greater role in them changing their minds).
And I hope the inevitable happens much sooner rather than later for the sake of the loving gay couples who just want what everyone else can have.
Re: A despicable human being in the news again. - davester - 12-21-2008
Oops, sorry, I made a mistake. The buttheads want to rip 18,000 families apart, not 9,000 as I originally stated. I wish there really was a hell, because the people pushing this would surely burn in it.
Re: A despicable human being in the news again. - vision63 - 12-22-2008
And ultimately you just ask: "What's it to them?"