The LA Times reports today on the latest update on “Proposition 8″:
“Reporting from San Francisco — The California Supreme Court today upheld Proposition 8′s ban on same-sex marriage but also ruled that gay couples who wed before the election will continue to be married under state law.
The decision virtually ensures another fight at the ballot box over marriage rights for gays. Gay rights activists say they may ask voters to repeal the marriage ban as early as next year, and opponents have pledged to fight any such effort. Proposition 8 passed with 52% of the vote.
Although the court split 6-1 on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the justices were unanimous in deciding to keep intact the marriages of as many as 18,000 gay couples who exchanged vows before the election. The marriages began last June, after a 4-3 state high court ruling striking down the marriage ban last May.Justice Ronald M. George, writing for the majority, said Proposition 8 did “not entirely repeal or abrogate” same-sex couples’ right to privacy and due process or the “constitutional right of same-sex couples to ‘choose one’s life partner and enter with that person into a committed, officially recognized, and protected family relationship.’
“Instead, the measure carves out a narrow and limited exception to these state constitutional rights.”
In an allusion to the state’s domestic partners law, George noted that Proposition 8 left undisturbed “all of the other extremely significant substantive aspects of a same-sex couple’s state constitutional right to establish an officially recognized and protected family relationship and the guarantee of equal protection under the laws.”
See the rest of the report here.
Why do I somehow sense a statement from Rick Warren coming out soon?
HT: 5ptSalt “correspondent” InHisGrip1963
And so we must to continue to pray for the progress of civil rights. These things take time and effort, but as each day passes it is encouraging to watch more and more finding deliverance from the strongholds of bigotry and blindness. Fight the good fight. I am humbled by the courage and patience of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters.
Pete,
Thanks for your comment.
As you know, civil rights is quite possibly the most evil movement, and most damaging to our country, in all it’s history. Bigotry and blindness is not desired, that’s true. However, as for “our gay and lesbian brother’s and sister’s”…one can only speak in those terms if they are outside of the saving grace of Jesus Christ, unsaved, and opposed to His Lordship over all and everyone. There is no such thing as gay and lesbian ‘brother’s and sister’s’ who are in Christ. – JT
JT, did you really mean to say that the civil rights movement “is quite possibly the most evil movement” in all of our country’s history? I have heard that some southern Baptists were great supporters of racism. But what do you have in mind?
I am by no means a supporter of racism. In fact, I oppose it in the strongest of terms. By “civil right’s”, I am saying that before a holy God, man has no rights. We have no ‘rights’ before God. We were created for Him, to enjoy Him, to live for Him, we belong to Him, we receive our breath and heartbeat from Him. When we wake up in the morning we breathe His air, walk upon His earth and eat food given by Him. He is God. The ‘civil rights’ movement focuses entirely upon man, and has since it’s beginning, and thus opposes the very Scriptural definition of the meaning of our existence.