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CA: Voters Pass Gay Marriage Ban Proposition; Democrat Legislators Ask Supreme Court to Void

Voters will, schmoters will.  If Democrats were going to void the will of the people in California in the courts, why’d they even bother lifting a finger to oppose the marriage proposition in the first place.  Seems like they wasted their money.  Oh wait – they’re Democrats – that’s what they do.  From the Los Angeles Times:

With almost 11 million ballots tallied, Proposition 8 had 52.3% of the vote to 47.7%. Although many ballots remain to be counted, the 500,000-vote spread is viewed as insurmountable.

“The citizens of California rely on the Legislature and the courts to safeguard against unlawful discrimination by temporary, and often short-lived, majorities,” the legislators said in the document, written by attorneys at the firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

“This is a Hail Mary, no question about it,” said Frank Schubert, manager of the Proposition 8 campaign.

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