CA Court to Hear Challenges to Prop 8

From the Sacramento Bee:

The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to consider complaints by opponentsof Proposition 8 that it improperly revised the constitution to ban gay marriage.

The court declined to stay its enforcement in the meantime.

Court spokeswoman Lynn Holton said the court asked the parties involved to write briefs arguing three issues:

1. Is Proposition 8 invalid because it constitutes a revision of, rather than anamendment to, the California Constitution?
   
   
2. Does Proposition 8 violate the separation-of-powers doctrine under the California Constitution?
   
   
3. If Proposition 8 is not unconstitutional, what is its effect, if any, on the marriages of same-sex couples performed before the adoption of Proposition 8?

Holton said the court established an expedited briefing schedule.

She said oral argument could be held as early as March 2009.

eHarmony Changes Its Tune? But They Still Suck

eHarmony has changed its tune on queers. Sorta.

The California-based company will begin providing same-sex matches under as part of a settlement with New Jersey’s Civil Rights Division.

Garden State resident Eric McKinley filed a complaint against the online matchmaker in 2005.

Under terms of the settlement, the company can create a new or differently named Web site for same-sex singles. The company can also post a disclaimer saying its compatibility-based matching system was developed from research of married heterosexual couples.

Neither the company nor its founder, Neil Clark Warren, admit any liability.

In addition, eHarmony will pay the division $50,000 to cover administrative costs. It will pay McKinley $5,000 and give him a free one-year membership to its new service.

A separate site, huh? How, uh, Jim Crow-esque of them. (”We’ll just put those people over here, dear customers. So you can go right on pretending they don’t exist.”)

And my guess is that they probably won’t get any great rush of people signing up for their segregated service for queers. But I’m glad that New Jersey stood on principle on this one.

Still. I wonder what the The Big Gay Sketch Show on Logo will make of this.

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I don’t know that they’ll have to get rid of this sketch, but I can only imagine what they will do with the idea of a separate site for gays…