Prop 8 could unravel minority rights, opponents say

02/25/09 Palm Springs The Desert Sun:

" 'It’s not déjá vu all over again,' said Kate Kendell, executive director of the San Francisco-based National Center for Lesbian Rights, the lead counsel in the case. 'Prop 8 is really less about marriage, from our perspective, than it is about how are we going to apply the law to minority groups in California. What our allies all recognize with alarm is the same thing that we are afraid most in the passage of Proposition 8 and that is, who’s next?' "


"Mathew D. Staver, who filed a petition to intervene in the case and founded Liberty Counsel, said Proposition 8 has always been about the right of citizens to define marriage. 'They’re running from marriage because they’re losing when it’s marriage because clearly Proposition 8 passed,' Staver said. 'This is about marriage and whether the people have the right to amend their constitution and protest marriage.' "

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