Members of California’s legislative LGBTQ caucus unveiled a proposal Monday to repeal Proposition 8, the voter-approved measure which for years banned same-sex marriage in the state.
Voters passed Prop. 8 in 2008. It was subsequently overturned in 2015 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality.
But the language remains on the books.
“People are horrified when they are reminded that the California Constitution explicitly discriminates against LGBTQ people,” said Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco). “While that scar is not enforceable because of Supreme Court precedent … we know that we need to get this out of our constitution.”
Authors of the legislation say it is intended to protect unions between interracial and same-sex couples.
To amend the state constitution, the measure requires approval from two-thirds of lawmakers in both legislative chambers. If it clears that hurdle, it will go before voters for final approval in 2024.
Republican Assembly member Greg Wallis of Palm Springs attended a press event announcing the legislation, lending bipartisan support to the effort.
Carlos Marquez with ACLU California Action said the proposal is “not about just repealing a vestige of discrimination in the state constitution. It’s also about replacing rank discrimination with an affirmative fundamental protection for marriage.”
The new proposal comes a year after voters overwhelmingly voted to add the right to “reproductive freedom” – including the choice to have an abortion and to use contraception – to the state constitution.
That measure was in response to the Supreme Court decision to overturn the federal right to an abortion, returning the issue to individual states.
Wiener and other lawmakers noted in his concurring opinion in that case, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the court should “reconsider” a number of previous opinions, including on same-sex marriage and consensual sexual activity.
The proposal’s lead author, Democratic Assembly member Evan Low of Santa Clara County, took that as a warning “that marriage equality will be next on the chopping block. That’s why this is imperative,” he said….
Original story on Cap Radio.
Proposition 8 was good and true. It should be law. Same-sex unions should be prohibited. Same-sex marriage should be out of the question. I was a student at Archbishop Mitty High School during that election. The whole faculty was opposed to Proposition 8 and in favor of Barack Obama except for three religion teachers, one math teacher, one social studies teacher, and that’s about it. We were indoctrinated heavily with pro-gay and pro-Democrat propaganda at school assemblies and in religion classes. When Proposition 8 passed and students were crying the rest of the week, the campus ministry teachers had counseling sessions to comfort students who thought, as a result on their indoctrination, that California had discriminated against gays. Catholic teaching was never presented authentically at Mitty unless you had one of the two (out of about twelve) very good and very faithful religion teachers who were working there at the time. Now I don’t think there are any.
The production and sale of contraceptives should be outlawed as well.
I was there too. It was about that time that Mitty’s administration began allowing students to bring same sex dates to formal dances such as prom. Artwork created by students showing same sex couples and rainbow flags with the gay motto “love is love” was displayed in the foyer. The messaging was clear: Mitty favored gay relationships. When students would ask religion teachers about it, most teachers would say that church teaching is going to change to allow gay marriage because it’s discriminatory not to let them marry, and being a Catholic is all about love. My parents told me to ignore my religion teacher and just write what she wanted to hear on tests so that I got a good grade. Religion classes were a joke.
I hope you have read or will read the Catechism in case any other mistakes or untruths that you did not enough awareness at the time to catch got into your thoughts.
Such histrionics from Scott. No one is asking for this.
I think some are clamoring for this. Evan Low, the “Sisters” of Perpetual Indulgence, Gav, Kam, Lucifer and others. Deflect and distract. Forget that hundreds of thousands are fleeing our once-great state. In January, Gov. Gav declared that California had a $97.5 billion budget surplus and boasted that “no other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this.” Then he and our one-party legislature wrote a budget with major increases, plus a multi-billion-dollar cash rebate to taxpayers and other one-time expenditures. Subsequently, he acknowledged that the projected surplus had morphed into a $22.5 billion deficit. Give him a break, he only squandered $120 billion. Yeah, let’s focus on repealing something that almost everyone forgot about. Besides, he’s running for president.
Proposition 8 has been, by the decision of some unelected Justices, consigned to the dustbin of history. Why the effort to overturn it, since it no longer has any effect? It seems it’s part of a cultural revolution to erase our history. Who would believe that Californians twice voted that marriage is one man and one woman (Prop 8 and Prop 22)? As if we could determine what marriage is by voting on it. Maybe Wiener would like a state constitutional amendment defining that there are an unlimited number of genders. We need a Great Leap Forward and to purge any consciousness of natural law, Christianity, common sense or dissent from the minds of our people.
Dems are afraid that the Supreme Court might reverse the Obergefell ruling, as it did the Roe v. Wade ruling. If that were to happen, then Proposition 8 still being on the books in California would mean that gay marriages could not be performed, and all gay marriages since Obergefell would probably be nullified.
I don’t think that’s quite right, but it’s an easy mistake. Several states had massage before Obergefell includong California, but it was about the most tortured path of any of them. That’s why this new effort is useless to combat overturning it.
No mistake. Proposition 8 is a California state constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Passage of that made gay marriage prohibited under the state constitution, which is the highest state law. There had been gay civil unions and domestic partnerships, which Prop 8 didn’t address, but Prop 8 outlawed issuing state-sanctioned marriage licenses to gay couples. If Obergefell were to be overturned, it would return the matter to states to decide, and Prop 8’s definition of marriage as between one man and one woman would once again be the law of the state. Please, God, may this Supreme Court overturn that awful decision made possible by Anthony Kennedy.
I do not think they would nullify the marriages and it is doubtful it will be overturned.
Marriage is redefined although not well.
The lunatics are running the asylum!
The big lie is that outlawing gay marriage is evil discrimination. It’s good and wise discrimination. It’s necessary discrimination. Two people of the same sex can’t get married, regardless of what laws state. Gay marriage is a legal fiction.
Scott Weiner seems to support all that is bad, and to oppose all that is good. What’s scary is that he seems to be on a trajectory to be a future governor.
Weiner is also sponsoring a bill that would allow the state government to take children away from parents who don’t affirm their “gender identity”.
Democrats are pure evil.
I should not have clicked either up or down, as I suppose there are some in the party that still think they can change it for the better, but the platform is mostly evil. Not all Republicans are good either. Politicians do not save us, God does.
The first time Prop 8 was voted on and passed I know the sodomites were going to be angry. I went to downtown San Jose to see if there was going to be a protest, so I joined them with my “Yes on Prop 8” bumper sticker. When asked why I was there I stated if they were going to the street and put in everyone’s face, I was going to put it in their face. I was outnumbered but I stood my ground.
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When enough people stand their ground against the gays, they leave. Look at what’s happening in Florida. Gays are leaving Florida. Straight people just need to muster the courage to stand up to the gays and their gay indoctrination of children and their gayification of business, entertainment, education, and politics. Then they’ll leave. But probably not before one goes postal somewhere.
Repent before it’s too late!