Imperial county is 77 percent Latino, borders Mexico and voted almost 70 percent for Prop 8. It has asked to be allowed to intervene in the Prop 8 case (especially since San Francisco was allowed to become a party)
Our video team has just finished a terrific 3-minute video recapping our Summer for Marriage tour and introducing our new emphasis as we head into the fall. I hope you’ll take a moment to watch.
All eyes in the media are focused now on the liberal 9th Circuit, which will be considering the Prop 8 case. Meanwhile, two similar cases are now winding their way up through the Tenth Circuit. The first is a case in Oklahoma, where a gay couple has challenged that state's marriage amendment on federal grounds. And a new case was just filed in Wyoming, also in the 10th Circuit. If the 9th Circuit denies standing in the Prop 8 appeal, a 10th Circuit panel will likely be the next deciding judges. From the Associated Press:
The Maldonado campaign for Lieutenant Governor in California is taking aim at “Whether-You-Like-It-Or-Not-Newsom”:
Too extreme for California?
How did Mr. Federalist Society decide it’s okay to use the U.S. Constitution to require gay marriage?
Meg Whitman, the GOP candidate for governor of California, has pledged to defend Prop 8 if she is elected. Jerry Brown, her opponent, has declined to defend Prop 8, although it is his legal responsibility to do so.
A distinguished constitutional law scholar and former dean of Chapman law school, John Eastman has emerged as a major new voice in the legal debate over Prop 8:
The Ruth Institute's own Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse explains why the media spin on David Blankenhorn's testimony in the Prop 8 case is just plain wrong.
In Mexico City, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez suggested that Mexican Supreme Court Justices may have been bribed to uphold the same-sex marriage law passed by Mexico City.
Over at FamilyScholars.org, a researcher named Amber Lapp asked an Ohio waitress/manager "Why do we have marriage?":
From Ed Whelan’s reflections on the 9th Circuit stay order in the Prop 8 case, over at NRO Bench Memos:
A new poll from Fox News finds just 37% of Americans support same-sex marriage. Even 39 percent of Democrats oppose gay marriage.
The Prop 8 case is called "Perry v. Schwarzenegger," but Governor Schwarzenegger has flip-flopped and switched sides, potentially preventing the appeal of Judge Walker's outrageous ruling.