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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 05:37 PM
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CA high court upholds gay marriage ban "fight far from over..."
more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30936298/

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....Jeanne Rizzo, 62, who was one of the plaintiffs along with her wife, Pali Cooper, said: "It's not about whether we get to stay married. Our fight is far from over. I have about 20 years left on this earth, and I'm going to continue to fight for equality every day."

Gloria Allred, the attorney representing a lesbian couple in a lawsuit against Prop 8, said, "In the same way that marriage is for better or for worse some decisions of our Supreme Court are better, but this one is for the worse." Allred’s clients are Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, the first same-sex couple to marry in the state in June in Los Angeles County.

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A small group of Proposition 8 supporters also gathered outside the court.

"A lot of people just assume we're religious nuts. We're not. But we are Christians and we believe in the Bible," said George Popko, 22, a student at American River College in Sacramento, where the student government officially endorsed Proposition 8.

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