FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 26, 2009
Jollene Levid, Gabnet Secretary-General
secgen@gabnet.org
Tel: 323-356-4748
The California Supreme Court upheld the supposed legality of Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriages today. The decision allows a bare majority of voters to deprive an entire societal group of Californians of their basic right to marry whom they choose. By doing so, the California Supreme Court abdicated its fundamental function of rendering justice even-handedly, in both the spirit and letter of the law.
Gabnet of the Mariposa Alliance (Ma-Al) condemns the CA Supreme Court for this ruling, as Gabnet has held inviolable the control of women, men, transgender and gender non-conforming people over their own bodies, over their sexualiaty. Gabnet affirms the right of all to choose whom to marry based on informed consent and age of majority.
In a state and country that allows men, including batterers and serial murderers, to purchase brides through catalogues and online, Gabnet/Ma-Al calls attention to the irony of the recent CA Supreme Court ruling. Banning same-sex marriage while tolerating the purchase of women to become wives only underscores the cash nexus in interpersonal relationships under imperialism. It highlights the absolute injustice of Proposition 8.
Gabnet/Ma-Al denounces the homophobic, heterosexist decision of the Supreme Court and warns against the repeating of history: California anti-miscegenation laws once forbade people of color marrying white Californians in this state, and with the passage of Proposition 8 in California, we see the anti-human nature of capitalist law once again.
Proposition 8 must be over-turned. Minority groups deserve their basic rights. Women, men, transgender, and gender non-conforming people deserve the right to marry whom they choose, and their choices respected by law.
Gabnet/Ma-Al calls on all who cherish freedom and equality to view the struggle for same-sex marriage as part and parcel of all our struggle for equality and for the right to have our humanity recognized and respected. Let us work together to defeat the forces of those who wish to maintain class-based, race-based and gender-based oppression.
LOVE HAS NO GENDER: REPEAL PROPOSITION 8!
LEGALIZATION FOR SAME-SEX UNIONS!
LGBTQI/WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS! — ###
