Daily Archives: 08/05/2010

(Community Matters) Saw on Huffington Post

(Community Matters) Vote for my friend Anthony’s video for the Food Network by clicking on the thumbs up at the YouTube site http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp4EU3B47z4 He’s family

Vodpod videos no longer available.

(Community Matters) Will the appeal of Justice Walker’s Prop 8 decision hold up?  I don’t know a thing about the governing appeals court.  I am slightly optimistic at the Supreme Court level since S. Ct. Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Romer v Evans where the S. Ct struck down Colorado’s referendum prohibiting cities, towns and counties from adopting any laws recognizing gays & lesbians.  His famous line – no state may “deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws.”

I’m not a lawyer but I do note that in Romer,there were citations about the test for constitutionality of the referendum requiring rational relationship vs tougher interpretation of strict scrutiny for public purposes.  I read the same in Justice Walker’s opinion.

Optimistic

update: a legal analysis