On Saturday, UNCA SDS members and the Asheville community came together to fight back against the recent Prop 8 ruling:
The decision was released on Tuesday May 26, 2009:
The court ruled that “The Amendment to the State Constitution referred to as Proposition 8 is valid and enforceable from the moment it was passed. Justice Moreno in his lone dissenting opinion to the above ruling stated, “[T]he aim of Proposition 8 and all similar initiative measures that seek to alter the California Constitution to deny a fundamental right to a group that has historically been subject to discrimination on the basis of a suspect classification, violates the essence of the equal protection clause of the California Constitution and fundamentally alters its scope and meaning. Such a change cannot be accomplished through the initiative process by a simple amendment to our Constitution enacted by a bare majority of the voters; it must be accomplished, if at all, by a constitutional revision to modify the equal protection clause to protect some, rather than all, similarly situated persons. I would therefore hold that Proposition 8 is not a lawful amendment of the California Constitution.”
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