Calif. Legislature supports gay marriage challenge

Source: SFGate.com

Both houses of the state Legislature passed resolutions Monday endorsing the legal effort to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban, just days before the issue goes to the state Supreme Court.

The resolutions passed along party lines, 18-14 in the Senate and 45-27 in the Assembly, with several members absent in both chambers.

Supporters of the resolutions said Proposition 8 should not have been placed on the November ballot through the initiative process. They said it represented a revision to the state Constitution because it stripped away existing rights and argue that only the Legislature can place such revisions before voters.

"We're talking about a radical revision to our Constitution," said Sen. Mark Leno, the San Francisco Democrat who sponsored the Senate resolution. "Do we have a constitutional democracy in California or do we have mob rule, where a majority of Californians can change the Constitution at any time?"

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/02/state/n152713S55.DTL&type=politics

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Exciting... this is going to be a very important week in the history books. Everyone that is in CA please get involved how ever you can with the candle light vigils this Wed night!

http://www.eveofjustice.com/

I hope the court feels the same.

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This is very good news.

Hopefully they'll take the whole step this time.

It was to prevent mob rule provided everyone did their constitutional duty.

The Constitution was put into place to prevent bad laws from being enacted just because the majority supported it.

thanks you, Sen. Mark Leno.

Thanks to the California legislature (both houses) for standing up.

There are so many supportive groups.

I'm praying for the Court to overturn it (this transcendentalist is generating all of the positive thoughts that she can).