{"id":5856,"date":"2013-07-11T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2013-07-12T08:38:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T13:38:36","slug":"the-supreme-court-proposition-8-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5856","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court "Proposition 8" Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Prop 8 ruling was perhaps more troubling than even DOMA. The Supremes decided, cutting across ideological lines interestingly, that the people of California had no standing to bring their own challenge against the ruling of a judge that Prop 8, which created a state constitutional amendment defining marriage, was unconstitutional. Here’s a graphic I found that describes the problem the best.<\/p>\n

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While I’m against true direct democracy (the ol’ “two lions and a sheep voting on dinner” analogy), the proposition feature of California law has a high enough bar to clear to get something on the ballot to safeguard that. But now the people’s will can be simply ignored, with the ruling of a single judge, and we, the people, have no standing to challenge it at the Supreme Court. Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Prop 8 ruling was perhaps more troubling than even DOMA. The Supremes decided, cutting across ideological lines interestingly, that the people of California had no standing to bring their own challenge against the ruling of a judge that Prop 8, which created a state constitutional amendment defining marriage, was unconstitutional. Here’s a graphic I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,20,245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-judiciary","category-marriage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t