Mariage: Prop 8 de retour devant la cour suprême de Californie. Quelle que soit la décision de la cour suprême de Californie, les opposant-e-s à la Proposition 8 (Prop 8), qui interdit le mariage des couples gays et lesbiens en Californie, auront remporté une victoire. La Cour doit en effet décider si les partisans du texte sont habilités à faire appel alors que l’État, lui, s’est retiré de l’affaire. Si la cour estime qu’un appel est possible, le procès a de grandes chances de remonter jusqu’à la Cour suprême fédérale, «qui par 14 fois a déclaré que le mariage était un droit fondamental pour chaque Américain», rappelait en février Chad Griffin, d’American Foundation for Equal Rights (Afer). Si en revanche elle rejette la demande, Prop 8 sera abrogée, et les couples de même sexe pourront à nouveau s’unir en Californie.
La cour devrait se prononcer d’ici 90 jours. Parallèlement, une cour fédérale doit décider si les vidéos du procès précédent doivent être rendues publiques. Des explications détaillées (en anglais) dans cette vidéo: Photo DR.
Prop 8: Des mecs hétéros se désapent pour défendre les gays. Judge Who Ruled Against Prop. 8 Retiring. Carlos Moreno, the California supreme court judge who has repeatedly ruled for marriage equality, is stepping down from the state's high court February 28. The Los Angeles-based Democrat was part of the 4-3 majority for In re Marriage Cases, the 2008 decision that struck down laws limiting marriage between a man and a woman. Months later, California would narrowly pass Proposition 8, which reversed the high court's decision. After Prop. 8, several lawsuits challenged the antigay initiative. The state's high court consolidated them for 2009's Strauss v. Horton, where the court ruled that Prop. 8 was valid but that same-sex marriages performed before it passed were valid.
Moreno was the sole dissenter who ruled against Prop. 8. Moreno, 62, is currently the only Democrat and only Latino on the high court. It's not clear whether Moreno will take part in the appeal of Perry v. Prop. 8-Loving Pastor Accused of Child Molestation. The board of a church in Sacramento County, Calif., has issued a statement in support of a pastor arrested on suspicion of child molestation. According to The Sacramento Bee, the board of Rio Linda Baptist Church expressed its support for pastor Tom Gene Daniels, who is charged with suspicion of a lewd or lascivious act with a child under 14 and engaging in three or more acts of sexual conduct with a child. Daniels was one of the most vocal supporters of California's Prop. 8. "Until such time as the courts prove Pastor Tom Daniels guilty, we have an obligation to support him and his family," said the statement.
The Bee reported that “the statement also said that accusations such as those facing Daniels need to be tried in the court and not the media.” Daniels, 48, was arrested in December and is being held at the Sacramento County jail with bail set at $6 million. Californie: Elton John soutient les opposants à la Proposition 8.
L'appel. Proposition 8 illustrates the need for Constitutional review. To outsiders, the credit that is given to the United States Constitution can often seem over-the-top. Whereas the American Constitution has lasted centuries and has been left almost unchanged, France has used five different constitutions this century alone. The stability of both the American regime and its Constitution is unmatched by any other Western country. Why does a text that was written more than 320 years ago still hold such a critical role in political life today?
The idea of making today’s decisions according to a text created in a completely different era seems to make little sense. If a law is passed today that contradicts the Constitution, then surely it has still been voted by the people’s representatives, and so represents the current will of the people. However, what was an exception is fast becoming the norm. What are the advantages of having a Constitutional review system? As the Perry v. Waters: Ban Hetero Divorce | News. Speaking Sunday at the North Louisiana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, famed director John Waters offered up a suggestion: Ban heterosexual divorce. Waters, who was honored by the festival and had his 1981 film Polyester screened, was asked how gays should push for equality. His response, whether lighthearted or not, was to push for an end to legalized divorce. There actually is an effort in California to ban divorce. Waters made the same suggestion two months ago while filming his "I Advocate" segment for The Advocate On-Air.
Watch it here. Obama Marriage Position a “Disgrace”? | News. Anne Rice on Christ, Prop. 8 | News. Author Anne Rice says her anger over discovering the Catholic Church she’d donated thousands of dollars to turned around and spent millions helping to pass Proposition 8 in California is one of the main reasons she publicly declared she’s leaving Christianity. In an interview with Out.com, Rice says when she “simply did not foresee that degree of hatred and persecution” when she went back to the church in 1998.
Same-sex marriage wasn’t the serious issue it is now, she says. Rice says her relationship with Christianity has always been shaky, and she took a lot of heat for supporting Hillary Clinton in her presidential bid. But nothing floored her like seeing the hate speech the church has focused on gays and lesbians in recent years. “If you read any part of the New Testament, there is no authority there for Christians to go out of their group and attack a minority in the secular culture,” Rice says. “I was really against the things I saw people saying and doing. N.Y. Log Cabin Endorses Donovan for AG | News.
The New York State chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Dan Donovan, the Republican nominee for state attorney general, whom Democrats have criticized for his opposition to marriage equality. In a news release Wednesday morning, the Log Cabin New York board of directors and political action committee announced their support for Donovan, the Staten Island prosecutor running for attorney general on the Republican and Conservative party lines. “As the district attorney of Staten Island, Mr. Donovan has a long and distinguished record of treating everyone equal under the law,” said Log Cabin Republicans of New York State PAC chairman Gregory T. Angelo in the release. “He is a man of integrity with a selfless commitment to uphold the rights of all citizens of this state, and we look forward to working with him when he becomes the next attorney general of the state of New York in November.”
“The job of the attorney general is to uphold the law,” he said. Prop 8 Got The Leffew Family To Share Their Lives. Then They Went and Made a Movie About It. Right To Love "An American Family" Preview. Save the 14th Amendment | Commentary. COMMENTARY: Don’t know much about history, do they? That’s a sad statement to make about the U.S. Congress, but evidently a true one, given the recent pile-on of Republican senators calling for repeal — or “investigation” — of birthright citizenship. Senate majority leader Harry Reid noted that his colleagues have “either taken leave of their senses or their principles.” In fact, they may have taken leave of both, as their ridiculous, racist campaign betrays a basic misunderstanding of American history and of the Constitution. First, a quick history lesson: Before the Civil War, there was no definition of American citizenship.
Slaves were not citizens, and women’s citizenship was tenuous at best. For slaves, the needed result of the Civil War was not just freedom from bondage but entry into the social contract. The Fourteenth Amendment was the centerpiece of Reconstruction, and it finally provided the United States with a definition of who exactly was a citizen. Rachel B. Prop 8: The Parent Trap | News. In the wake of the devastating passage of Proposition 8 in California, analysts were quick to assign blame, with many commonly citing exit polls that attributed the loss of same-sex marriage to African-American voters. Opposition from racial minorities and other factors, such as the assumption of support from white Democratic voters, have come to inform the Prop. 8 conversation since the discriminatory ballot measure, which repealed same-sex marriage rights, passed in November 2008, but a new report questions the accepted wisdom and suggests other reasons for the outcome, some of them surprising.
“The Prop 8 Report,” released Tuesday by the LGBT Mentoring Project in Los Angeles, analyzes daily polling commissioned by the No on 8 campaign in the final six weeks of the campaign, when a close contest began to turn in favor of antigay forces led by the Yes on 8 campaign. “I know the exact day every ad went out the air,” said Fleischer. But the road ahead requires more than toughness. Study Discounts Prop. 8 Advertising | News. People who oppose or support gay marriage before an election will continue to hold their viewpoints despite millions of dollars spent on advertising, according to a new study, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The study, conducted by New York University, looked at trends from 1998 until the present and evaluated the change of voter opinions in relation to campaign spending.
Findings from the study may change the way people on both sides of the issue campaign for support. "It's not that we can't move people," said Geoff Kors, executive director of the gay rights group Equality California. "We just have to move them before with an effective education campaign. " Gay marriage opponents discounted the study, saying gay marriage supporters may choose to believe the results because they were on the losing side of the Proposition 8 vote after lagging in fund-raising. If Money Doesn't Change Voters' Minds on Marriage, Is It Time to. Prop 8 to Judge: Invalidate 18,000 Marriages | News | Advocate.c. Baltimore Sun: Strike Down Prop. 8 | News. Maryland's largest newspaper published an editorial Saturday that calls for all bans on same-sex marriage to be struck down. Writing about the U.S. District Court case that will decide if California's antigay Prop. 8 will stand, the newspaper indicated it believed Judge Vaughn Walker should throw out the ban on same-sex marriage, and that the Supreme Court should do the same.
The Sun also pointed out the apparent weakness in the arguments made by defendants of the gay marriage ban: "Robbed of religious arguments, opponents were forced into positions that were ridiculous when taken to their logical conclusion. The claims that a ban on same-sex marriage is somehow for the benefit of society are just window dressing on deep-seated — and unconstitutional — prejudice. Read the full story here. Prop. 8 Challengers See Promise in Supreme Court Decision | News. In a recent decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the view that gays and lesbians are an identifiable class in the eyes of the law — a characterization that anti-gay-marriage forces have vigorously fought and that attorneys challenging California's Proposition 8 see as a crucial element of their case. In a Tuesday letter to U.S. district judge Vaughn R. Walker, Theodore J. Boutrous, who argued against Prop. 8 in the high-profile case Perry v. Schwarzenegger alongside lead plaintiffs' attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies, wrote that “sexual orientation is not merely behavioral,” and that, as the Supreme Court found Monday in Christian Legal Society v.
Martinez, “there is no distinction between gay and lesbian individuals and their conduct.” “While it is true that the law applies only to conduct, the conduct targeted by this law is conduct that is closely correlated with being homosexual,” O’Connor wrote in her concurring opinion in Lawrence. Prop 8's ProtectMarriage.com Lawyer Andy Pugno Loses CA State House Race.