Arnold Schwarzenegger thinks Prop. 8 could be overturned in courts...
I'm sorry, but I just do not get Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the gay marriage issue. This is a man who TWICE, with the stroke of his pen, could have made it legal for same-sex couples to marry each other in California.
But he wanted to let the courts decide.
The court decided it was OK. But last Tuesday, the people decided differemtly and now gays can't marry each other anymore in this state.
But Schwarzenegger said in a CNN interview on Sunday that the fight for gay marriage was not over: "It's unfortunate, obviously, but it's not the end because I think this will go back into the courts, this will go back to the supreme court and all this, because the supreme court very clearly in California has declared this unconstitutional. It's the same as in the 1948 case when blacks and whites were not allowed to marry. This is -- this falls into the same category. I think that we will again maybe undo that, if the court is willing to do that, and then move forward from there and again lead in that area."
The governor also urged protesters to keep fighting and compared it to his weight-lifting days: "Sometimes I try to life the weight ten times and I failed, but the eleventh time I lifted it. So I learned that you should never ever give up. And I think it's the same with this issue. They should never give up. They should be on it, and on it, until they get it done."
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Arnold, do yourself a favor don't represent the Republican Party anymore. It's clear that you want to re-brand the Republican Party into your image based on center left ideals. You no longer represent Republican Party it's values, principles, and ideals. You and your other 'girlie man' cohorts are raising taxes, creating bigger government, social issues are not Rebuplican! Do some self-refection and go with who you naturally are, a Liberal!
Maybe we can undo Schwarzenegger as Governor. Recall Schwarzenegger! Will that fit on a bumper sticker. Arnold you were elected to carry out the will of the people. The will of the people is that men should not marry men, women should not marry women. The people have spoken. Now get on with it.