On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, the November referendum that took the right to marry away from California gays and lesbians. As a small consolation, they did not invalidate the legal marriages of around 11,000 couples that were already married.
Proponents had based their support of the taking of rights from their fellow [...]
In the United States, our citizens pride themselves on the constitutional rights that they enjoy. We hold up the Bill of Rights as a symbol of how people everywhere should live. We are colloquially known as “The Land of the Free”. We “hold these rights to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” We [...]
Another general Election Day is over. We have spent the last several months rooting one way or the other on a number of candidate races and ballot measures. We do it in a way similar to the way we root for our local sports teams to win, only in this race, we have to live [...]
OK, so I wasn’t intending to comment on any ballot measures outside of Cascadia when I decided to highlight them over the next few weeks. Sometimes I just react to the news as I see fit.
According to recent articles, a number of religious groups in California are mobilizing to get out the vote to pass [...]
We have reports today that the California Supreme Court has overturned a voter-enacted law that prohibits marriage between persons of the same gender in that state. While I certainly congratulate the people who want to get married in their new-found ability to do so, I believe that this issue tells us so much more [...]
