The question here is whether California voters can enforce those same principles through regulation of marriage licenses. They cannot. California’s obligation is to treat its citizens equally, not to“mandate [its] own moral code.”
- United States Federal Judge Vaughn Walker August 4th 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The evidence shows, however, that Proposition 8 played on a fear that exposure to homosexuality would turn children into homosexuals and that parents should dread having children who are not heterosexual.
- United States Federal Judge Vaughn Walker, August 4th, 2010
Here, the purported state interests fit so poorly with Proposition 8 that they are irrational, as explained above. What is left is evidence that Proposition 8 enacts a moral view that there is something “wrong” with same-sex couples.
- United States Federal Judge Vaughn Walker, August 4th, 2010
I'm not scared of you anymore
-Giulietta
Love for everyone!
- Iris, A friend
Text: Giulietta degli Spiriti
Federico Fellini
1965
United States Federal Judge Vaughn Walker decision on Proposition 8 in the State of California