Proposition 8

Defenders of marriage are tolerant

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 September 2010

Again and again, California voters have had their voice and their vote on Proposition 8 rejected. Mostly by powerful homosexual marriage activists, judges and sympathizers. But the people who want their constitutionally expressed will to be legally established have tolerated the repeated necessity of fighting for it in court. The appeal is court again, and sympathizers of the voters have joined in.

Gay marriage on hold…again…for now

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 August 2010

After declaring a California voter initiative wrongly passed because he disagreed with the citizens’ conclusion, Judge Vaughn Walker took it upon himself to declare anyone who disagreed with him ineligible to appeal to a higher court. Case closed, he thought. He was wrong.

Unhappy in California

Sheila Liaugminas | 13 August 2010

No matter which way it goes with Proposition 8, in elections and court rulings, some group is going to be very upset. But after the latest decision Thursday, nobody’s happy. What’s going on in California?

Persons and acts and marriage

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 August 2010

At the absolute core of arguments over abortion and same-sex marriage, at the heart of the matter before other points of contention are made one way or the other…..is the presumption that we either have person/body dualism or we do not. Philosophers and scholars and other intellectuals have been debating that point for a very long time. But with laws changing the way they are, it’s time to move it front and center.

Marriage on trial

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 June 2010

Sometimes, the Proposition 8 battle seems surreal. But then, so do other serious, emotional and intense conflicts playing out in the nation’s courts and city halls and classrooms and media, over what we knew not long ago as core Judeo-Christian traditional values.

Judges acted in unseemly haste

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 January 2010

And unlawful, too. So says the Supreme Court in denying the webcast or telecast of the extremely tense court challenge to Proposition 8.