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State officials step aside for Prop. 8?s demise

By Alliance Alert

Stateline.org: "The decision by the elected officials is significant, because they are the two named defendants in the underlying case. That means that if they don't decide to appeal, there may be nothing that supporters of Proposition 8 can do to stop the weddings from taking place . . . The Sacramento Bee quoted attorney Sara Tappen, of the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund, a supporter of Proposition 8. Tappen told the paper the proposition's backers should have their appeal heard and 'have a right to be defended,' despite state officials who she said 'refused to defend the laws of the people they represent.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).