San Francisco officials defend Proposition 8 ruling

Source: San Jose Mercury News

San Francisco city officials today moved to derail a bid by backers of Proposition 8 to wipe out last year's ruling striking down the law because of the trial judge's same-sex relationship, calling it "tired," "meritless" and motivated by bias against gays.

In court papers, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera argued that there is no reason to tamper with former Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's August 2010 decision that found California's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Proposition 8 sponsors recently argued that Walker's ruling should be overturned because he was in a long-term same-sex relationship and therefore had a bias in the case.

... San Francisco joined lawyers for same-sex couples in challenging Proposition 8. Lawyers for the couples are expected to file their arguments in the case within the next day.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/samesexmarriage/ci_18050843

"In 2010, the California Fair Political Practices Commission fined the LDS church for failing to follow campaign disclosure policies during the last two weeks leading up to the election, which amounted to $37,000 in non-monetary contributions. They were fined $5,538." --Wikipedia article "California Proposition 8 (2008)"

hetero judges when they make a decision involving a hetero couple?
Do they throw out a black judge when that judge makes a decision ivolving a black person?
Do they throw out a religious judge because of his/her religion that might be different than
the person receiving the decision?
They need to come up with a better excuse than the one they are trying. Ain't gonna work!!!

and I think... they REALLY THINK GAY PEOPLE ARE INFERIOR!

It would be the same if some party in a court battle brought up the race of a judge, (of course s/he would be black) or the gender of a judge, (of course the judge would be a woman), and attempted to contrive a valid argument for dismissal of the decision based upon the "inferior" gender or race.

If a case comes to court involving two white male parties, no one of sound mind would EVER attempt to throw out the decision of a white male judge, based upon the fact that the judge was ALSO a white male.


This is how absurd this argument is, bottom line.

Makes about as much sense as the H8ers argument.