Right Reacts Preemptively to Expected Prop 8 Loss

[cynatnite]

The decision in the Proposition 8 trial is expected soon and backers of Prop 8 are expecting to lose, which is why they have already filed papers seeking a stay on the decision as they appeal it to the Ninth Circuit.

And Bishop Harry Jackson has already released a statement voicing his outrage about it via a series of Twitter posts:

Prop 8 Decision Threatens Core Civil Right to Vote for Marriage -This is a travesty of justice. The majority of Californians - and two-thirds of black voters in California - have just had their core civil right to vote for marriage stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his San Francisco views on the American people.

The implicit comparison Judge Walker made between racism and marriage is particularly offensive to me and to all of us who remember the reality of Jim Crow.

It is not bigotry it is biology that discriminates between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples. To make a marriage requires a husband and a wife because these unions are necessary to make new life and connect children to their mother and father.

Judge Walker’s slur will not stand the test of time and history. We demand that Congress and the Supreme Court act to protect all Americans’ right to vote for marriage.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-reacts-preemptively-expected-prop-8-loss

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I don't understand how they have a 'core civil right to vote', but don't believe Prop 8

discrminates. How can anybody have a right to vote on someone else's rights?

[sakabatou]

3. It's the propaganda, I tell you.

[BillStein]

2. I love his convenient use of science

Funny how biology is determinative when it supports his bigotry.

[tinrobot]

4. So marriage is only for creating new life?

"To make a marriage requires a husband and a wife because these unions are necessary to make new life and connect children to their mother and father."

So that should mean that sterile couples and people not wanting kids should be disallowed from marriage as well.

Ridiculous.

[Carnage251]

5. I think its gonna go to the supreme court and the supreme court five are gonna overturn the ruling.

GFYS harry jackson

[KamaAina]

6. "openly gay" federal judge?

His sexual orientation seems to be more in the "worst-kept secret" category. Look for the H8ers to use that as grounds for appeal, 'cause since they know for sure he's gay, he should've recused himself. :sarcasm:

[rbixby]

7. Isn't it ironic

that he's decrying Jim Crow, but at the same time advocating the same policies as Jim Crow, just against homosexuals?

[robertpaulsen]

8. KO, are you reading this?

We got a worst person candidate here.