Battle to reverse Prop 8 begins

(San Francisco) LGBT groups have begun efforts to put a repeal of Proposition 8 on the 2010 ballot.

Prop 8, passed by voters in November, bars same-sex marriage in California. The constitutionality of the measure will be taken up by the state Supreme Court in 2009, but LGBT groups say they …

Anti-gay extremists are trying to intimidate justices on the California Supreme Court by threatening a recall if they rule that that Prop 8 is invalid.

In a recent Mercury News interview, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, said if California Supreme Court were to overturn Proposition 8:
“You will see a mobilized group like you have never seen in the state of California… There are grounds for a recall. We saw that with Gray Davis. We have an oligarchy, an oligarchy in judges’ role in the state of California.”1
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Equality California has stood up to these threats many times before and we will stand up to them each and every time they are made. We worked to prevent an attempt to recall the judge who ruled that California’s domestic laws were invalid and we worked to make sure every legislator who voted for marriage equality was re-elected (and helped take down several who didn’t vote for equality).

And with your support we will defend justices who stand for the Constitution’s promise of equal protection.
We must demonstrate that we have the resources and are prepared to defeat these threats.

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There is too much at stake to allow right wing threats against the Court to gain any traction. If the Court rules that the rights of a protected minority can be amended out of the Constitution through the less protective process used by our opponents, then all of the rights we have worked so hard to gain–and the rights of other minorities–are at risk. And anti-LGBT groups know this.

They are already planning on attacking safe schools laws if the Court upholds the process used to pass Prop 8. We cannot allow the threats of Randy Thomasson and his misnamed campaign for children and families to carry the day.

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