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California Supreme Court Asked to Overturn Ban on Homosexual ‘Marriage’
By Hilary White
SACRAMENTO, November 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of California has been asked to overturn that state’s ban on homosexual ‘marriage.’
The suit, brought by a group of homosexual activists after the state passed a ban on the practice, will go forward without its original principal litigants. Lancy Woo and Cristy Chung, described in the gay media as the “poster children” of the cause, after “marrying” illegally in San Francisco, have broken up and dropped out of the case.
The suit is being brought by the three main groups, The National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal, and the ACLU, under a new title.
The couple, along with about 8000 other sets of homosexual partners, received their marriage license from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2004 when he began allowing them to be issued to same-sex couples.
After Newsome attempted to force the issue in 2004, in March 2005, a Superior Court judge in San Francisco ruled that the California law defining marriage as being between one man and one woman was unconstitutional. The state of California appealed and last month the California Court of Appeal overturned that ruling.
In September 2005, California’s Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, vetoed a bill that proposed to legalize same sex “marriage.”
The Appeals Court ruling specifically decried the method favoured by homosexual activists to install gay “marriage” in some states and in Canada. The ruling said, “The time may come when California chooses to expand the definition of marriage to encompass same-sex unions. That change must come from democratic processes, however, not by judicial fiat.”
Homosexual activists know that they have little hope of installing gay “marriage” if it is left to the public to decide via the democratic process. In last week’s mid-term elections, seven more states voted to protect marriage making for a total of 27 states that have approved such bans. These include Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Nebraska, Missouri, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio¸ Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana¸ Arkansas¸ Georgia¸ Kentucky¸ Mississippi¸ Texas¸ and Alabama.
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Schwarzenegger Vetoes Bill to Legalize California Same-Sex Marriage
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