Opponents of same-sex marriage plot their campaign strategy

[babylonsister]

This lawyer and opponent is from VA? Maybe no one in CA agrees with him? :think:

Opponents of same-sex marriage plot their campaign strategy

Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, May 15, 2008


(05-15) 17:18 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Four state Supreme Court justices may have made history, but they overreached and invited a voter backlash that will quickly undo their decision to allow same-sex marriages, opponents of the ruling said Thursday as they geared up for the fight ahead.

"The Supreme Court essentially gave the strategy," said Mathew Staver, the attorney who represented Campaign for California Families before the court in unsuccessfully arguing to uphold the state ban on same-sex marriage.

That ban was reaffirmed in 2000 in a ballot initiative that passed with 60 percent of the vote, he noted.

"When you have four people in the state undermining the will of the people, that's the strategy in itself," said Staver, dean of the law school at Liberty University,a fundamentalist Baptist college in Lynchburg, Va.

"I think this is going to get people to the polls who haven't thought much about this in the past, who have been complacent," Staver said. "Not only are they going to go to the polls, they're going to bring their friends."

Staver and other opponents said they were confident the court's 4-3 ruling would be quashed by California voters in November, when a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is expected to be on the ballot.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/15/BA3G10N42P.DTL

[msongs]

1. this event will be heavily promoted in xtian churches esp mormon nt

[magellan]

2. Dufus, it ain't just "four people" in the state

It's four federal judges. Repubs need to learn to start playing by the rules. And the LAW is the rule.

[rurallib]

3. Since that decision I had a hankering for Mathew Staver

He seems so virile.

[babylonsister]

4. Who is that? McCain's guy? I don't know. nt

[Elspeth]

5. I am really worried about what these folks will come up with

They say they have over a million signatures to put their proposition on the ballot.

[Pushed To The Left]

6. If we kick their asses in November and defeat their hateful amendment, they won't be able to use

that "will of the people" talking point anymore. We tried to keep it from getting on the ballot with some counter-petitioning, but it sounds like they just might have found enough morons to sign. However, there have been reports of some forgery going on with those signatures, so there may be some more court action before November. One piece of good news is that Governor Schwarzenegger has vowed to fight against the initiative! I never thought I would be giving Schwarzenegger props on DU, but he is doing the right thing here.

The stupidity and hatred of the religious right never ceases to amaze and disgust me.