The EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE: ¨The court, I think, is right on the money. Thank God for the U.S. Constitution¨ Lionel Deimel

¨Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and lesbians. The evidence shows conclusively that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples. FF 76, 79-80; Romer, 517 US at 634 (“[L]aws of the kind now before us raise the inevitable inference that the disadvantage imposed is born of animosity toward the class of persons affected.”). Because Proposition 8 disadvantages gays and lesbians without any rational justification, Proposition 8 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.¨ U.S. District Court decision invalidating California’s Proposition 8

Proposition 8 Overturned HERE

· Thanks to the U.S. District Court, Northern California
· Thanks to the Equal Protection Clause
· Thanks to the Fourteenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution
· Thanks to Lionel Deimel, sidebar
· Thanks to KRISTIN M PERRY, SANDRA B STIER,
PAUL T KATAMI and JEFFREY J ZARRILLO, Plaintiffs