Federal Judge Overturns California Ban On Same Sex Marriage
LOS ANGELES – Chief US District Judge Vaughn Walker, in San Francisco on Wednesday ruled that ‘Proposition 8’, the 2008 California ban on gay marriage, was unconstitutional.
Proposition 8 (or the California Marriage Protection Act) was a ballot proposition and constitutional amendment passed in the November buy cialis online 2008, state elections. The measure added a new provision, Section 7.5 of the Declaration of Rights, to the California Constitution, which provides that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.
Chief US District Judge Vaughn Walker said:
“The evidence shows that Prop. 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California constitution, the notion that opposite sex couples are superior to same sex couples,” Judge Walker wrote in his 130-page decision. “Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians and because Prop. 8 prevents California soft tab cialis from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes the Prop. 8 is unconstitutional.”
The ruling will definitely buy Tiova online be appealed against and the lawyers who defended Proposition 8 have already filed a request for the court to keep the state’s gay marriage ban in place until their appeal can be heard.
By declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional, Judge Vaughn Walker issued a sweeping decision in favor of gays and lesbians. By limiting marriage to heterosexual couples, he said, was an “an artifact of a foregone notion that men and women fulfill different roles in civic life.”
On Judge Walker’s ruling this statement was issued by Brian Brown president of the National Organization for Marriage: “This ruling, if allowed to stand, threatens not only Prop 8 in California but the laws in 45 other states that define marriage as one man and one woman,”.