Judge lifts Prop. 8 stay – gay marriages on hold
Posted: August 15th, 2010 | Author: Kink On Tap Editorial Staff | Filed under: Briefs | Tags: 54, discrimination, gender, glbt, law, marriage, politics | Comments Off on Judge lifts Prop. 8 stay – gay marriages on holdLast week, Proposition 8 was ruled unconstitutional for the should-be-obvious reason that it's an anti-gay discrimination bill. Proponents' arguments that the ruling "jeopardizes the democratic process" are forgetting that human rights aren't a democratic process, but unalienable rights that American law protects. Nevertheless, that's the argument they're using in a rambling appeal to Walker’s ruling filed before the ruling was announced.
After the ruling Judge Walker issued a stay, preventing same-sex marriages from resuming until August 18. The ban's supporters quickly appealed that ruling as well, and as the deadline quickly approaches they've become ever more anxious for a new panel of 3 Ninth-Circuit Judges, Edward Leavy, Michael Hawkins and Sidney Thomas, to extend Judge Walker's stay order. They still have no reason other than fear as to why, though.
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