On Nov 7, 2008, at 2:08 AM, Mark Bennett wrote:
> Actually, I don't think that the Cal Supreme Court can invalidate a
> ballot
> proposition that amends the state constitution on state constitutional
> grounds. If the full faith and credit clause is inoperative because
> of the
> DOMA, I can't think of any federal constitutional reason to
> invalidate Prop
> 8...
The DOMA is facially unconstitutional, since no statute can make a Constitutional provision "inoperative." And the CSC has every right to decide if Prop 8 is a (permitted) "Amendment" or a (forbidden) "Revision."
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos