...and that they should be allowed without question.

WA had a court case about that (making all the signatures public) but I do not remember how that came out.

I did not look foreward to see ads funded by various righ wing religious groups. Attorney General Kamala Harris did he right thing.

This wasn't just another effort to define marriage in a way that excluded same-sex marriage, after all.

It's hard to imagine even the usual suspects in the organized hate community, vile as they are, getting behind this. Mr. McLaughlin must be a very, very sick man.

I would have been interested to see how they would have promoted this in advertising and which company would have been involved with making the pro ads.
The Catholic Church opposes the death penalty, so they wouldn't have gotten any support from that quarter
The LDS church is smart enough to not publicly (or privately) support a measure like this because it's toxic
Many within Republican circles have already said that it would likely have had a much worse affect on the party than their anti-Mexican crusade of the early 90's if they came out in support
It would have been left to the darkest fringe of California society. The Tom Metzger-types.

Yes, by all accounts Mr. McLaughlin is a very sick man.

He has obviously proven that he is unfit to be an officer of the court and uphold the laws of California.

That's for the California Bar Association to consider. I believe they have declined to take action against him.

I believe I read somewhere where somebody wanted gather signatures to put on the ballot to issue to statement calling Mr. Mclaughlin an asshole (I believe that was the exact word). I think I'll decline to sign that. I don't need the state to tell me that Mr. McLaughlin is an asshole, and I don't think anybody else does, either.

And also, fuck you Mr. McLaughlin

The guy knew it wasn't going to be upheld and didn't bother to show for court. I think he purposefully wasted public resources. Of course there's no real way to prove that.

The douche didn't even defend it. He probably thought himself clever and "Swiftian" after remembering when he read half of the Cliff Notes to A Modest Proposal in high school.

Just another pinky-to-chin ploy to make participation in government a privilege for the privileged.

Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:13pm EDT
California can refuse anti-gay ballot initiative, judge rules

SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 23 | By Sharon Bernstein


The author of a proposed California ballot initiative advocating the murder of gays and lesbians should not be authorized to gather signatures to place it before voters, a judge in the state capital of Sacramento has ruled.

"The proposed initiative titled the "Sodomite Suppression Act" ... is patently unconstitutional on its face," Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei wrote in an order released to the public on Tuesday.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris had filed a complaint against the author of the measure, which she called unconstitutional and bigoted.

She asked for permission to refuse to prepare a ballot title and summary for the measure, necessary precursors before its author could begin to gather signatures.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/23/usa-california-anti-gay-idUSL1N0Z92NA20150623