rcrocket wrote:"Un-American?" President Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits the federal government from recognizing gay marriage legalized in the states. That Act has been on the books for 13 years. By definition, Prop 8 was "American," bringing California into line with DOMA.
DOMA did not strip away a state constitutional right (at that time no state supreme court had recognized a state constitutional right to same-sex marriage). That wasn't the case in CA. The CA supreme court had recognized a homosexual's fundamental right to marry another homosexual (just like heterosexuals had) under the CA state constitution. Prop. H8te stripped that away.
I am a lawyer sworn to uphold the law, so I felt forced to vote in favor of Prop 8.
BS. You voted for Prop. H8te because the Brethren told you to, period. The "lawyer" in you should have recognized how wrong it was to mix religious dogma with constitutional rights.