Excellent! NAACP and others File Suit Against Prop 8!

[AntiFascist]

The Asian Pacific American Legal Center, California State Conference of the NAACP, Equal Justice Society, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. file a "Petition for Extraordinary Relief, including Writ of Mandate; Memorandum of Points and Authorities" with the California Supreme Court AGAINST Proposition 8.

This is not just a gay rights issue, it is a CIVIL RIGHTS issue.

http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/highprofile/documents/s168281-petition-mandate.pdf

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The imperative for this Court to grant the relief Petitioners seek extends far byond the merits of this litigation and speaks to the concerns that impel Petitioners to file separately for relief. This case is not simply about gay and lesbian equality. In holding that antigay discrimination is entitled to the same strict scrutiny that discrimination based upon race or sex provokes - a holding that Petitioners fully endorse -- this Court has necessarily placed attempts to deprive gay people of their constitutional rights and attempts to take rights away from women or people of color on the same article XVIII footing. A finding that suspect classes of citizens can be selectively oppressed through the initiative process would jeopardize the rights of every member of a historically disfavored community in the State of California.

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I hope that all people of color, all women, and anyone who cares about civil rights will find it in their best interests to join us tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 15th, in a day of protest.

Edited to fix link to the document

[msongs]

1. thanks for the support, groups! nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Thank goodness!!! This proposition is so wrong. nt

[proud patriot]

3. k and r

[Xipe Totec]

4. Asian Pacific American Legal Center, NAACP, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

To those blaming minorities for the passage of Prop 8 in california,

Remember this.

[Bethany Rockafella]

5. The NAACP? Good.

No need to blame Black people anymore.

[JI7]

6. NAACP opposed this during the campaign

[AntiFascist]

9. That's great....

filing a separate law suit, in addition to the existing three, underlines the civil rights imperative.

http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/highprofile/prop8.htm

[Karenina]

16. . .

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Great news! Thank you for posting! k+r, n/t

[Juche]

8. Thank you NAACP

For taking that up and showing this is a civil rights issues. If California can openly discriminate against one group, there is no stopping them from going after any other and that fact needs to be cemented.

[TexasObserver]

10. Awesome!! It really helps to have support in the case.

[Hekate]

11. Hallelujah. This abomination Will Not Stand. nt

[kevinbgoode]

12. Absolutely!! And here is this message from Slash and Perla

urging people to join tomorrow and stand up for their rights ! ! !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bun4J3OhwQc


And thanks for the groups which have taken their support for the rights of ALL citizens to the California Supreme Court.

[madmadmad]

13. awesome- we SHALL overcome!

to paraphrase mlk: an injustice to one, is an injustice to all!

[MNBrewer]

14. This is terrific news

[really annoyed]

15. Excellent!

[HamdenRice]

17. But, but, but ...

"Blacks are teh enemy !!!"

"How can we call for a vote to bring back teh slavery if NAACP supported teh marriage eguality???"

"That can't be ... all teh blacks are ignorant religious fundamentalists!!!"

:sarcasm: