Unitentional Allies

by Gay Agenda News Team 

Who would have thought that a religious group would have been instrumental in overturning Prop 8.  But according to a post on USA Today, that’s exactly what happened.

Mormons took a lot of abuse for helping pass Proposition 8 in California, where 52% of voters banned the right of gay couples to marry in 2008. But will anyone thank Jehovah’s Witnesses for their role in getting the law declared unconstitutional?

One of the biggest outcries over Prop 8 was that the fundamental rights of a minority group could be taken away by popular vote — which isn’t supposed to happen in America, land of the free.

Vaughn Walker, the federal judge who struck down Prop 8 this week, boldly said it “was premised on the belief that same-sex couples simply are not as good as opposite-sex couples.” He also minced no words with the electorate: “That the majority of California voters supported Proposition 8 is irrelevant.”

This is where Jehovah’s Witnesses come in. On Page 116 of Judge Walker’s ruling, he cites a 1943 Supreme Court case where the high court did a rare reversal of itself, acknowledging a mistake it made in a Jehovah’s Witness case three years earlier. What happened between 1940 and 1943 to Jehovah’s Witnesses gave Judge Walker in 2010 his most potent precedent to show that voter will does not trump the protection of minority rights.

Find out more at: USA Today!