Prop 8?

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Hawkeye's argument unraveled when he threw in "craftsmanship" and art, going to to demonstrate that technological advances is the primary use of math.

This is the thread that will not die with the same caste of characters telling each other how the constitution grant rights that are written in invisible ink.

Debra, How do you think this will play out?

I probably shouldn't jump in here, but I need to point out that your analogy is quite faulty there CI. If evangelicals were "complaining" about and attempting to make it illegal for 2 people of the same sex to live together, then your analogy would make sense. All they are trying to do is keep homosexuals from marrying, not living together and having sex. Thus your analogy is faulty.

And for the record, the conservative church's opinion about couples living together is in line with their opinion about homosexuality. Both are considered sinful. You just hear more objection to homosexual marriage because that is what is being fought out through the courts and at the ballot box right now.

Proposition 8 Cases

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What's Next

The Supreme Court has announced that an oral argument will be held in the Prop. 8 cases on Thursday, March 5, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The court will issue a written opinion in the cases within 90 days of oral argument. See news release.

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

SAN FRANCISCO"A majority of California voters may have supported Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment passed four months ago that eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry. But as the state Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments on a series of legal challenges to the law tomorrow, more and more members of the state's political establishment continue to take a public stand against it"raising questions, in some quarters, about why so many politicians here have opted to openly break with a majority of voters.

This week, both houses of the state Legislature and the state's attorney general, Jerry Brown, roundly condemned the law and asked the Supreme Court to overturn it. The state's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, both of its U.S. senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and its highest-ranking congresswoman, Nancy Pelosi, have all made statements since the election denouncing the law. Proposition 8, which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman, passed in November with 52 percent of the vote.

In a party-line vote on Monday, the Democrat-controlled state Legislature took a legal stand against the law, passing a nonbinding resolution declaring that voters alone did not have the right to amend the Constitution in this case. The resolution asserts that Prop. 8, because it strips a minority group of a constitutionally protected right by mere majority vote, is an improper revision of the Constitution. Since a revision requires a two-thirds vote of the state Legislature before it can appear on the ballot"something Proposition 8 never got"lawmakers have asked the court to render the law invalid.