http://blogcabinca.org Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:13:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Metropolitan News-Enterprise Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Page 7 IN MY OPINION: Initiative Process Is Being Abused BY JACK ROSENFELD The pending petition to the California Supreme Court (Bennett v. Bowen (No. S164520)), seeking to remove the marriage initiative from the November ballot, is about much more than the right to marry. This case is also about the use ... http://blogcabinca.org/2008/07/02/met-news070108-initiative-process-is-being-abused/ Follow-up: For educational purposes only: Pugna's opposition for respondent Hollingsworth' et.al.'s reliance on People v. Frierson  is insufficient to overcome the revision argument advanced by Petitioners Bennet et. al.   The central case in the argument raised by Respondent appears to be People v. Frierson (1979) 25 Cal.3d 142, wherein the Supreme Court found ... http://blogcabinca.org/2008/07/02/update-070108-bennett-v-bowen-hollingsworth-s165420/ Obama on Same-Sex Marriage   [Ramesh Ponnuru] He says he opposes it. But he also thinks that a constitutional amendment in California to block it is "divisive and discriminatory." I think the only way to square these positions would be for Obama to say that he opposes same-sex marriage as a religious ... http://blogcabinca.org/2008/07/01/does-he-or-doesnt-he-a-puzzled-blogosphere-awaits-word/ THE FOLLOWING POST IS BY CHRISTOPHER GILBERTSON:  Conventional wisdom holds that the California Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down the Golden State’s Defense of Marriage Act was a triumph for the left, representing a giant leap toward its ultimate goal of establishing same-sex marriage nationwide.   Actually, it was a triumph ... http://blogcabinca.org/2008/07/01/the-last-desparate-days-of-gary-bauer/ THE FOLLOWING POST IS BY CHRISTOPHER GILBERTSON: In his Ideas piece for Tuesday’s Politico, “Can gay marriage save the GOP again?” former presidential candidate Gary Bauer makes misleading and inaccurate claims.  Bauer argues that the issue of gay marriage helped catapult the GOP to electoral success in 2004 and directly led ... http://blogcabinca.org/2008/07/01/log-cabin-republicans-president-patrick-sammon-responds-to-gary-bauers-false-claims/ A court filing Monday, the attorney general's office said the state takes no position on the issue.  In another twist, Liberty Counsel filed a motion to intervene to oppose a lawsuit that seeks to remove the discriminatory PROPOSITION 8 from the November 4, 2008 ballot.  Liberty Counsel filed in on behalf of the Campaign ... http://blogcabinca.org/2008/06/30/update-063008-bennett-v-bowen-hollingworth-s165420/ Update: Arizona puts gay marriage ban on ballot again Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona voters will decide again in November whether to change the state's constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. A 16-4 vote by the state Senate on Friday night sends the gay marriage ... http://blogcabinca.org/2008/06/30/and-so-the-gay-marriage-industrial-complex-goes-on-and-on-and/ Los Angeles Times Blog: "David: You may remember me as we corresponded a few weeks ago on various issues. I just wanted to point out that what you wrote in your comment here was not correct. A constitutional amendment is only constitutional if it is adopted in accordance with the constitutions ... http://blogcabinca.org/2008/06/30/from-the-blog-of-the-times/ Seen Entire Transcript From MEET THE PRESS w/ Tom Brokaw MR. BROKAW: You have a lot of propositions on the ballot again this fall. One of them would mean a constitutional ban on gay marriages. Do you support that? GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: No, not at all. As a matter of fact, I think ... http://blogcabinca.org/2008/06/29/governor-schwarzenegger-on-meet-the-press-wtom-brokaw-062908/ by Jonathan Rauch  First published in The Wall Street Journal on June 21, 2008. By order of its state Supreme Court, California began legally marrying same-sex couples this week. The first to be wed in San Francisco were Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, pioneering gay-rights activists who have been a couple for ... http://blogcabinca.org/2008/06/29/gay-marriage-is-good-for-america/