Attorney General Asks California Supreme Court to Rule on Prop. 8

Tuesday November 18, 2008
By Kathleen Gilbert

SACRAMENTO, California, November 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - California Attorney General Jerry Brown has filed a legal brief with the California Supreme Court requesting that the court swiftly settle three lawsuits against Proposition 8.

Brown said that the suits challenging Prop. 8, California's amendment restricting marriage to between a man and a woman, "raise issues of statewide importance, implicating not only California's marriage laws but also the initiative process and the Constitution itself.

"It is appropriate for the Court to address these issues to provide certainty and finality in this matter," wrote Brown, who was responding to the Court's request for Brown to weigh in on the legal action. the rest