Prop 8 updates: Lawsuits, protests, and civility
Filed by: Alex Blaze
November 7, 2008 3:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/prop_8_updates_lawsuits_protests_and_civ.phpLawsuits. Three lawsuits have been filed to prevent Prop 8 from taking effect, one by the ACLU, NCLR, and Lambda Legal, another by the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco and Santa Clara County, and the other by Gloria Allred on behalf of a lesbian couple. Their argument is process:
Lawyers for same-sex couples argued that the anti-gay-marriage measure was an illegal constitutional revision -- not a more limited amendment, as backers maintained -- because it fundamentally altered the guarantee of equal protection. A constitutional revision, unlike an amendment, must be approved by the Legislature before going to voters.
