ProtectMarriage.com Urges Supreme Court to Reject Effort Denying Voters Right
to Vote on Marriage Amendment
SACRAMENTO, Calif., /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Attorneys for
ProtectMarriage.com today sent a letter to the California Supreme Court urging
the Court to reject a last minute filing by backers of gay marriage to
prohibit voters from enacting the California Marriage Amendment this November.
The amendment restores the vote of 61% of the electorate who previously
approved Proposition 22 defining marriage as being between a man and a woman.
The organization "Equality California" with support for liberal groups
including the ACLU filed a petition late Friday demanding that the justices
prohibit voters from considering the proposed amendment.
"Backers of gay marriage have never secured anything close to a majority
of Californians to support their position," said Ron Prentice, Chairman of
ProtectMarriage.com. "They have had to rely on activist judges to do their
bidding because voters do not support them. However, the People's right to
vote on critical measures like this is of paramount importance and we believe
the Supreme Court will rightfully allow voters to have their say."
Attorneys for the ProtectMarriage.com coalition, which is sponsoring the
Marriage Amendment, said the Equality California lawsuit does not hold any
merit and consists of flimsy legal arguments that will not hold up in court.
The suit contends that the Marriage Amendment, a constitutional amendment,
cannot be legally accomplished by a voter initiative, but instead must be
passed through a different process for constitutional "revisions," which would
stop the initiative all together.
A similar request to block such an initiative in Oregon was denied by that
state's Court of Appeal as it was found not to be a revision under almost
identical provisions to the California state constitution.
"We are confident that the California courts will throw this lawsuit in
the round file so voters can reaffirm the decision they made several years ago
when 61% of the electorate voted to define marriage as a union between a man
and a woman," said Prentice.
SOURCE ProtectMarriage.com
Frank Schubert for ProtectMarriage.com, +1-916-448-4234
