Time to start bringing taking the fight to the next level and that’s just what two Californian lawyers are doing. The Advocate reports that Theodore B. Olson and David Boies filed a challenge to Proposition 8 in the federal court as of May 22nd. These brilliant legal minds will defend their clients (two separate sets of gay couples) and argue that limiting same-sex couples to domestic partnerships instead of granting them full marriage rights is a “violation of the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
That’s what we’re saying!
What’s truly amazing is that Olson comes to the cause after spending three years under the Bush administration, but insists that even while Bush wanted to endorsed an amendment to the U.S. constitution that would prohibit same-sex marriage, he never stood behind it.
Better late than never to show good judgement.
Olson says: “For a long time I’ve personally felt that we are doing a grave injustice for people throughout this country by denying equality to gay and lesbian individuals. The individuals that we represent and will be representing in this case feel they’re being denied their rights. And they’re entitled to have a court vindicate those rights.”
Olson, Boies, and other attorneys working on the suit are mostly working pro bono, but are also working alongside the American Foundation for Equal Rights, a truly motivating force in the fight for same sex marriage.
Best of luck to everyone working on the case and for the cause!
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