Friday, November 21, 2008

Prop 8 supporters threaten recall

Prop 8 supporters are also organizing and raising money to ensure that gays and lesbians are denied their marriage rights. Their efforts have included talk of recalling justices if they rule to invalidate Prop 8. I wasn’t even aware before this process that our California Supreme Court Justices serve 12-year terms and need to seek re-election from the voters. This is a reprehensible tactic and I hope that the Justices will do the right thing in their deliberation process and ignore the pressure that opponents of marriage equality. What this also means is that when the Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality, as we hope they should we will need to come out to support those justices that voted in our favor prevent

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