Ack! Attempt to nullify existing CA same-sex marriages
Posted by Sappho on December 20th, 2008 filed in Marriage
Proposition 8 sponsors really are trying to get the California Supreme Court to nullify the marriages of the gay and lesbian couples already married here. That’s ugly.
Both Attorney General Jerry Brown, whose office is scheduled to submit its own brief to the court Friday, and gay rights groups maintain that the gay marriage ban may not be applied retroactively.
The Supreme Court could hear arguments in the litigation as soon as March….
I know even some people who voted for the proposition here didn’t expect it to apply retroactively. Forcibly divorcing people that the state already allowed to be married is creepy. Also troubling given that they may already have entered contracts that were based on their being married couples.
December 20th, 2008 at 9:43 am
What is truly ugly is the great hoax that four of the seven California Supreme Court justices, through their warped interpretation of the CA Constitution and their flagrant defiance of the people’s will, expressed by an overwhelming majority in the earlier Proposition 22, perpetrated on these willing victims who delude themselves into imagining that they could possibly form a marriage.
December 21st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I recall the assurances from some Prop 8 backers that they were not interested in nullifying the existing same sex marriages. Reminds me of the pro-lifers who assert that they not interested in challenging contraception.
I suspect that undoing the marriages will invite its own backlash.