{"id":6065,"date":"2008-11-20T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T10:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/it-looks-like-prop-8-might-be.html"},"modified":"2008-11-20T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T10:55:18","slug":"it-looks-like-prop-8-might-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/it-looks-like-prop-8-might-be.html","title":{"rendered":"It looks like Prop. 8 might be upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uh oh! Not looking good for the opponents of Prop. 8<\/a><\/p>\n

While both sides cheered the court’s decision to take up the cases, Kennard’s lone vote to deny review could spell trouble for opponents of Prop. 8.
\nKennard is the court’s longest-serving justice, having been appointed in 1989, and has been one of its foremost supporters of same-sex couples’ rights. Without her vote, the May 15 ruling would have gone the other way. But she wrote Wednesday that she would favor hearing arguments only about whether Prop. 8 would invalidate the pre-election marriages, an issue that would arise only if the initiative were upheld.
\n“It’s always hard to read tea leaves, but I think Justice Kennard is saying that she thinks the constitutionality of Prop. 8 is so clear that it doesn’t warrant review,” said Stephen Barnett, a retired UC Berkeley law professor and longtime observer of the court.
\nFor those seeking to overturn Prop. 8, “I would not think it would be encouraging,” said Dennis Maio, a San Francisco lawyer and former staff attorney at the court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, what happens if it’s upheld? Mass hysteria and rioting? Do they burn down the Mormon temples and churches? String up Christians and Mormons? A mass exodus out of California to Connecticut and Massachusetts? (Make Cape Cod the new Hollywood?) Or will they be sensible and wait until they can overturn it with another ballot initiative?
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