Proposition 8 is being challenged in federal court.
In a bold move that takes a new approach to achieving marriage equality, two attorneys who argued opposing sides of the 2000 Bush v. Gore lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court have filed a challenge to Proposition 8 in federal court,
The attorneys argue that relegating same-sex couples to domestic partnerships instead of granting them full marriage rights is a violation of the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
http://www.advocate.com/...
The attorneys are Theodore B. Olson and David Boies.
The organization behind this is an unknown -
American Foundation for Equal Rights
No website yet - and only a Facebook page.
UPDATE:
http://www.equalrightsfoundation.org/
Why isn't this going through some well-known group like the Human Rights Campaign? Well, that one is pretty obvious to GLBTIQ people who are pretty fed up with the Obama administration. Joe Solmonese is completely in bed with Obama - hardly the person to lead the fight against a foot-dragging administration. Much like the NAACP was largely excluded from the Civil Rights movement by upstart organizations like SCLC and SNCC, this new organization may prove a better vehicle for change.
For too long, people - including many Kossacks - have said "Wait!" and "It's not a federal issue." Despite those in the Queer community referencing M.L. King, Jr.'s
Letter form Birmingham Jail
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
http://abacus.bates.edu/...
And the 14th Amendment.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Well, now equal rights for GLBTIQ people may just become a federal issue.
Is it Brown v. Board time for GLBTIQ human rights?
Will the Obama administration finally have to show its hand?