The Los Angeles Times seems to be containing itself in news coverage of the 55 page court challenge filed in San Francisco with the California Supreme Court by the National Council for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)and the ACLU last Friday. Only a small story on the event was published in the Saturday edition. Readers will recall that after the Times published a poll showing the Marriage Amendment was favored in California by 54% to 35% percentage, which also conveniently did not break-out the all important Hispanic swing-vote response, their poll analyzer Ms. Pickus called that a "small majority." The Times probably fears the marriage amendment on the ballot in Novemeber more for its potential to disturb Barrack Hussein Obama’s message in California than for its substance, although we can be sure they care about that too.
I took a look at the complainant NCLR’s website and note their slogan, "The audicity to fight for justice," rings very sympathetically to the title of BHO’s own book, "The Audicity of Hope." Indeed, there is plenty of audicity going on here. The Supreme Court will be very reluctant to take the measure off the ballot on the basis of the claims made. The claims are the typical ones used by the Left in California to attack an initiative of the people prior to a vote. They claim that the hundreds of thousands who signed the Marriage initiative petition didn’t know what they were signing; and that it "revises" rather than "amends" the state constitution (the initiative itself of course uses the word "amend," not "revise," which would also require a "Constitutional Convention," something that has never happened in state history). While some readers may be disappointed in the Court’s decision earlier over-ruling the ban on same-sex marriages in California, this lawyer predicts the Court will not take the marriage amendment initiative off the November ballot before a vote — at least not yet.