Brown asks state high court to overturn Prop. 8 Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Brown, who is required to defend state laws unless he cannot find reasonable legal grounds to do so, said after Prop. 8 passed Nov. 4 that he would support the initiative before the state's high court.
But in a lengthy filing late Friday, he argued that the constitutional amendment was "inconsistent with the guarantees of individual liberty" in California's governing charter.
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Poster Comment:
Two things here; 1) With all that is wrong in California, gay marriage should be very, very, very low on the list of ills. 2) Why would anyone bother to participate in the process when elected officials sue (in this case the voters in effect) if they don't get a desired result?