The legal battle over Proposition 8, despite yesterday’s California Supreme Court 6-1 decision to uphold the ballot measure banning gay marriage in the state, is not necessarily over, as two attorneys, former United States Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson and David Boise, who famously represented Al Gore in the legal challenge contesting counted ballots in Florida, are scheduled to announce Wednesday the filing of federal lawsuit challenging the constitutional validity of Proposition 8.
The morning after the California Supreme Court ruled to uphold Proposition 8, the city of Fresno finds itself not only the center of California geographically, but the center of attention, as activists, proponents of gay marriage, fuelled with a new energy and sense of purpose, make the Fresno ground zero in the fight for equal rights. It all begins Saturday, of course, with the Meet in the Middle event, meant as a the starting point of sorts whose finish line will be the passing of a November 2010 ballot measure meant to overturn Proposition 8. Organizers, who hopefully have learned from the anemic and apathetic anti-Prop 8 campaign run last year, aim to employ methods used by both Harvey Milk and Barack Obama – activism that makes the personal the political.
The San Francisco Chronicle – who has done an outstanding job covering the Proposition 8 decision, including this analysis of the ruling – offers a slideshow of the day in pictures.
One Yana Kulinich, the woman quoted in a story I posted yesterday, the student from American River College who “drove” into San Francisco to applaud the Court’s ruling, has a bit of a pro-Proposition 8 history, including authoring this letter to the editor of the Sacramento Bee in March, and a bit of a connection to the fine folk at ProtectMarriage.com, who are, um, supplementing Yana’s financial needs, along with Yana’s dear friend Jorge Riley, who famously held a sign yesterday that read “Homosexual=Pervert.”
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