Prop 8 sponsors seek to revoke recognition of 18,000 marriages

[WillParkinson]

Prop 8 sponsors seek to revoke recognition of 18,000 marriages

Today begins the last arguments of the trial over California’s Proposition 8, which amended the California Constitution in 2008 to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Today, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker hears the closing arguments in a trial that began when two gay couples sued to overturn the proposition.

The sponsors of Proposition 8, beyond arguing for maintaining the proposition, are now urging Judge Walker to revoke state recognition of the 18,000 gay marriages that were granted in the five month window when gay marriage was legal in California.

Andrew Pugno, an attorney arguing in favor of Proposition 8 said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle that he is not asking Judge Walker to nullify the 18,000 marriages, but rather to declare that government agencies, courts, and business will not have to acknowledge these gay couples as married.

Theodore Olson, lead attorney for the couples challenging Proposition 8, called the Yes on 8 campaign “an attempt to enforce private moral beliefs about a disfavored minority.”

http://www.365gay.com/news/prop-8-sponsors-seek-to-revoke-recognition-of-18000-marriages/

[donco6]

1. So, someone else can "unmarry" a couple?

What about all the contracts already entered into? Are they voided as well? If a state recognizes equal marriage rights in the future, do we have to worry that our marriage could be nullfied at any time?

[mitchtv]

2. I'll be wanting my license fee returned

that will be a tough row to hoe. That's why they were recognized after California Dems vote to give factory chickens and pregnant minors rights, and dump on us.

[customerserviceguy]

3. Like I said on a thread regarding this yesterday

It's overreaching. It clearly labels those who ask for it as mean-spirited.

It helps the judge see just who he's dealing with on one side of this issue, and helps him come to the proper conclusion about those who would deny equality to others, even those who have a right to it.

[BlueJazz]

4. I think they should revoke them.

That way we can all agree that "Those People" are not worthy of OUR rights and there-fore not Citizens and
do not have to pay any Taxes. I mean, why should you have to pay taxes if you can't share in the rights of all the other people that do ??

:) :) :)