From SF Gate: The federal appeals court in the Proposition 8 case hinted Monday at a ruling that would allow gays and lesbians to marry in California while leaving other states’ laws intact – a restrained approach seemingly designed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Lawyers challenging the 2008 initiative urged the Ninth U.S. [...]
More info as the Prop 8 trial gets underway in just a few hours. Here’s our post from this weekend about viewing locations, times and social media updates: Prop 8 Opponents Lay Out What To Expect Monday The following is some last minute items (live blogging/more viewing locations) courtesy of SF Weekly. From SF Weekly: [...]
Chad Griffin, board president of Americans For Equal Rights (AFER), the org backing the legal team that’s opposing Prop 8, posted a plethora of information on the AFER Web site about viewership locations and stations. He also included social media and online resources that will keep you up to date on the Prop 8 hearings [...]
Judge Cantil-Sakauye is also the first person of color to serve on the state’s supreme court and the second woman. We’re so happy for her. The state’s Filipino community must be just bursting with pride right about now. We ran a story about Cantil-Sakauye back in July who performed a same-sex ceremony for a gay [...]
RENWL NOTE: Folks this is just the “top soil” story. There’s some serious dirt underneath. And it all has to do with MONEEEEY. So stay tuned. We had to throw somethin’ up while we get the dish dish on when exactly did EQCA’s board give the “quit or else” ultimatum. From Bay Area Reporter: Two [...]
We knew they were gonna work on the judges if they could. Sure enough, Prop 8tr Andrew Pugno and thugs filed documents with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in SF tonight, asking Judge Stephen Reinhardt to disqualify himself because of his wife’s role with the American Civil Liberties Union, says the Washington Post. The [...]
The Denver Westworld (which is supposed to be Denver’s version of an alternative weekly newspaper we think) features a post this week about the Devin & Glenn Youtube satire that starred Justin Long and Mike White; that funny skit about why gays should get married by portraying the misery of marriage as time goes on. [...]
