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California’s Proposition 22 struck down
By David W. Shelton | May 15, 2008 | 
BREAKING NEWS
SACRAMENTO— In a ruling delivered today by the California Supreme Court, Proposition 22, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman, was deemed to be unconstitutional. The 4-3 decision was delivered today at 10:00 AM PST.
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Ronald M. George said:
“…in light of the conclusions we reach concerning the constitutional questions brought to us for resolution, we determine that the language of section 300 limiting the designation of marriage to a union “between a man and a woman” is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute, and that the remaining statutory language must be understood as making the designation of marriage available both to opposite-sex and same-sex couples.”
The full text of the decision and its dissents can be read here.
About David W. Shelton 
Posts by David W. Shelton are copyright (c)2006, 2007, 2008 by the author. All rights reserved.
David W. Shelton is a writer, speaker and activist in Clarksville, and serves on the Clarksville Human Relations Commission. His passions include film and complete equality for all people, and he has worked in various capacities to work toward this goal. He is currently an illustrator, graphic designer, trainer, and is the owner of Imagine Media Solutions. He is an Adobe® Certified Instructor in Photoshop®.
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Topics: California Supreme Court, Gay Marriage, proposition 22
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May 16th, 2008 at 1:11 am
California has always been a place where traditional barriers of class, race, gender have been pushed aside by a spirit of equality and opportunity that says to all – no matter who you are, and no matter where you come from – “It Can Be Done.”
Today, in that spirit, yet one more barrier gave way when the California State Supreme Court ruled that all Californians – regardless of the traditional barrier of sexual orientation – have the right to marry.
This is an historic moment – both for California and our country. From this moment forward, there can be no going back.
The road ahead will be difficult. Despite today’s historic ruling, the same groups that sponsored the 2000 California ballot measure that challenged marriage equality are getting closer to placing a measure on the November ballot that would write discrimination into our state Constitution. This effort would not only overturn laws granting the most basic rights to same-sex couples – it would effectively nullify today’s Supreme Court ruling.
Stand up for Marriage Equality today. Sign the petition now
May 16th, 2008 at 8:57 am
This is outright abuse of the powers of the Judicial Branch of our Government. The State of Califorina overwhelming voted that Marriage was between one man and one woman! They voted this by 61% in one of the most liberal states in America. The job of each of the Branches of our government as are follows.
Judicial Branch is to interpret the Laws of the land not make law!
Legislative Branch is to pass laws according to the will of people.
Executive Branch is to enforce the laws of the Land.
The people have spoken in that state and now activist Judges are overturning the will of the people.
It will be interesting to see where this goes.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:12 am
The great thing about the Court not doing its constitutional duty is that now it will be forced to the Supreme Court and then the ruling will be final.
It is amazing that overwhelmingly 80-90% of Americans dont want Same Sex marriage, yet activist and politicians refuse to hear the voice of the people that they are supposed to be representing.