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Prop 8 Overturned.

For today, at least, we win. May it be so every day until the battle is over.

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[nonsecateur.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lullabelle_/]

joygasm! :)

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

Just saw the NYT News Alert on this pop into my inbox, whooped for joy, posted it on my Facebook and then came here 'cause, you know, I'm sitting at home alone after a long day but this is a thing worth sharing with others. Still a long way to go. But this is a good step.

[azn-jack-fiend.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's a really good step in the right direction.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I just got the NY Times email alert on my Crackberry.

If I may allow myself a brief moment of emotion: HALLE-FUCKING-LUJAH!

[rhiannonstone.livejournal.com]

I am bouncing with joy. And I love your last line. I hope it's alright if I quote you.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, feel free.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[austengirl.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

HUZZAH!

[tacky-tramp.livejournal.com]

Just downloaded the decision. Apparently the judge was pretty merciless. Can't wait to read it.

[tommx.livejournal.com]

"Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and lesbians. The evidence shows conclusively that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite sex couples."

This was a quote I saw from the judge.

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

YES!

[sevendayloan.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[eac.livejournal.com]

Might not be the only fight or the last of this one, but I am still happy today. (now to avoid newspaper comments sections...)

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

Hip Hip Hooray!

[hoyland54.livejournal.com]

One of the "expert" witnesses was deemed unqualified as an expert witness "and, in any event, failed to provide cogent testimony in support of proponents' factual assertions."

"For today, at least, we win. May it be so every day until the battle is over"

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

But Democracy loses.

Regardless of my, your and/or anyone else's opinion/view on "gay" marriage it is wrong for a Judge, particularly an unelected one, to overturn a law that was passed in an open and free election by the majority of citizens. It is the same type of wrong as when elected representatives ignore the wishes of those that elected them as in the passage of the "Health Care Bill" recently. It is just plain wrong, no matter what the issue/law may happen to be. Just saying

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Today is a good day. May it be the first in a series.

Re: "For today, at least, we win. May it be so every day until the battle is over"

[rm.livejournal.com]

Prop 8 represented the people voting on whether a particular class of people deserved equal rights under the law. Would you be as willing to accept such a matter if the vote had been about the rights of people or color? Or the right of anyone to enter into an interracial marriage?

A government that thinks it valid to hold a vote as whether some of its citizens are as human as some of its other citizens does not deserve the honor of representing anyone.

[azn-jack-fiend.livejournal.com]

Your knowledge of the legislative and judicial system of this country is absolutely wretched. Please read a civics textbook. Or you could even check out Schoolhouse Rock. Just saying.

Re: "For today, at least, we win. May it be so every day until the battle is over"

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yup, which is also why the comment we both responded to is so appalling.

Re: "For today, at least, we win. May it be so every day until the battle is over"

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

I do not buy into that argument that you state above. By that I mean that I do not think anyone on either side (other than maybe a minority of extremists) are declaring that Gays are not human as non Gays. But I'll leave it at that for the sake of not getting into a heated argument or possibly being misunderstood which is never a good thing. I stand by my opinion in my comment.

Re: "For today, at least, we win. May it be so every day until the battle is over"

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

As a resident of the state of California, let me explain something that might not be clear to nonresidents (I'm not being snide, but sometimes you just had to be on the ground here in My State for the firefight to truly understand).

Proposition 8 sought to limit the civil a rights of class of individuals in California by denying them their constitutional rights. Whether that class of individuals was gay (no irony quotes), Latino, female or albino is utterly immaterial.

I repeat: *Proposition 8 sought to limit the civil rights of a class of individuals by denying them their constitutional rights.

Whether you like it or not -- whether you agree or not -- civil rights are NOT decided by a majority vote.

Re: "For today, at least, we win. May it be so every day until the battle is over"

[rm.livejournal.com]

The law says I am not allowed to marry. Why is that? It's not because the law treats me as an equal.

Those who fight against gay marriage say it is because my getting married would be the same as marrying a dog.

As others have said, please educate yourself: about the purpose and history of the US courts, about the systematic dehumanization of sexual and other minorities throughout US and world history, and about your damn privilege.