The Supreme Court in California is hearing arguments about Proposition 8 and the power of the people in California to ammend the Constitution. It appears that the judges are leaning toward upholding Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage since domestic partnership already allows the rights of homosexual couples the same as heterosexual couples in the state of California. The more important issue is the Power of the People to change their constitution and the direction of the judges to uphold the Constitution.
The emails are pouring in about protests and rallies to march. I feel these are important steps. Another solution the gay community can take is legal action and place propositions up for voters on other state ballots (like Arizona) to remove the institution of marriage from the Constitution in states that ban gay marriage.
I am not sure how effective it may be but it may give notice to those who say "why is marriage that important?" When they have to answer the question themselves when they step up to the voter box.
Another ridiculous notion is to place the rights of gay people to live in the state of California on the ballot. Let's see how the Mormon Church and Prop 8 supporters would speak in support of/ or against such a measure.
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