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[scarfman]

According to Time online, the supporters of Proposition 8 in the court case may not be allowed to appeal the recent ruling on the grounds that they're not the named defendants in the suit. Yay. This may mean, however, that they can be found ineligible to have defended it in the first place, which may mean everyone starting all over again. Boo.

According to the article, Judge Walker overturned the proposition on the grounds that the defendants "failed to show that the resumption of gay marriage would do them personal, irreparable harm". What I want to know is: if personal, irreparable harm is the criterion under the law, why is there any question of outlawing or disallowing samesex marriage at all?

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[ianmcin.livejournal.com]

This may mean, however, that they can be found ineligible to have defended it in the first place, which may mean everyone starting all over again. Boo.

Maybe, but even that's not without forward momentum. Things may wind up being a war of attrition against Mormon bank accounts, but even then, I know where I'd place my long-term bet.

[scarfman]

I know where I'd place my long-term bet

At least one person on my flist has posted to the effect, "Hey, conservatives and reactionaries bent on denying human rights to minorities: The force of history shows a consistent overall progression from oppression to human rghts: with slavery, with women's rights, with religious freedom. When you gonna learn, huh?"

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

“Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.” (Theodore Parker, 1841)

"Anyone that reads intelligently knows that some of our old ideas are up a tree, and that traditions are scurrying away before the advance of their everlasting enemy, the questioning mind of a new age. It is time to take a good look at human affairs in the light of new conditions and new ideas, and the tradition that man is the natural master of the destiny of the race is one of the first to suffer investigation." (Helen Keller, 1913)