Comments on: Passing Of Prop 8 In California Has Other Minority Groups Worried They’re Next http://guanabee.com/2008/11/passing-of-prop-8-in-california-has-other-minority-groups-worried-theyre-next/ Spicy Coverage: Gossip, media, culture and lifestyle for Latinos. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:42:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: DC http://guanabee.com/2008/11/passing-of-prop-8-in-california-has-other-minority-groups-worried-theyre-next/#comment-18447 DC Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:29:34 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=5382#comment-18447 I agree also. However, as stated, inherent rights are tricky and, although they should be obvious, they change often. In my humble opinion, these changes occurs because the groups seeking these rights and protections are often changing (or at least how the public perceives them is changing). Any way...just rambling. I agree also. However, as stated, inherent rights are tricky and, although they should be obvious, they change often.

In my humble opinion, these changes occurs because the groups seeking these rights and protections are often changing (or at least how the public perceives them is changing).

Any way…just rambling.

]]> By: calitexican http://guanabee.com/2008/11/passing-of-prop-8-in-california-has-other-minority-groups-worried-theyre-next/#comment-18446 calitexican Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:44:25 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=5382#comment-18446 um yessss. i completely agree with those quoted above. the court could set a dangerous precedent by allowing this amendment to stick around. please please please find that it's a constitutional revision and please please please find it thusly invalid. i think these little tidbit sums it up well. i only wish i could say it as well. introducing my legal hero, eva patterson: "We would be making a grave mistake to view Proposition 8 as just affecting the LGBT community," said Eva Paterson, president of the Equal Justice Society. "If the Supreme Court allows Proposition 8 to take effect, it would represent a threat to the rights of people of color and all minorities." AND: "Proposition 8 contradicts the most basic protection guaranteed by the California Constitution, which is the right to equal protection of the laws," said John Trasviña, President and General Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "We can not allow the Constitution to sanction discrimination against one group of people." AND: "We cannot become a society that picks and chooses who is entitled to equal rights," said Alice A. Huffman, president of the California State NAACP. "We should include all people from all walks of life in the entitlement to all freedoms now enjoyed by the majority of our population. As a civil rights advocate, we will continue the fight of eliminating roadblocks to freedom." AND: "Consistent with core equal protection principles, minority communities must not be stripped of their fundamental rights by bare majority rule," said Karin Wang, Vice-President of Programs for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center. "California went down this path before when the majority population chose to bar interracial marriages involving an unpopular minority: Asian immigrants. The state Constitution exists exactly for this reason - to protect the fundamental rights of minority communities." um yessss. i completely agree with those quoted above. the court could set a dangerous precedent by allowing this amendment to stick around. please please please find that it’s a constitutional revision and please please please find it thusly invalid.

i think these little tidbit sums it up well. i only wish i could say it as well. introducing my legal hero, eva patterson:

“We would be making a grave mistake to view Proposition 8 as just affecting the LGBT community,” said Eva Paterson, president of the Equal Justice Society. “If the Supreme Court allows Proposition 8 to take effect, it would represent a threat to the rights of people of color and all minorities.”

AND:

“Proposition 8 contradicts the most basic protection guaranteed by the California Constitution, which is the right to equal protection of the laws,” said John Trasviña, President and General Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. “We can not allow the Constitution to sanction discrimination against one group of people.”

AND:

“We cannot become a society that picks and chooses who is entitled to equal rights,” said Alice A. Huffman, president of the California State NAACP. “We should include all people from all walks of life in the entitlement to all freedoms now enjoyed by the majority of our population. As a civil rights advocate, we will continue the fight of eliminating roadblocks to freedom.”

AND:

“Consistent with core equal protection principles, minority communities must not be stripped of their fundamental rights by bare majority rule,” said Karin Wang, Vice-President of Programs for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center. “California went down this path before when the majority population chose to bar interracial marriages involving an unpopular minority: Asian immigrants. The state Constitution exists exactly for this reason - to protect the fundamental rights of minority communities.”

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