Harris Wants to Pretend There's No Prop 8 Dispute

California Attorney General Kamala "San Francisco" Harris has violated her oath of office by actively working to subvert the state's constitution.

This is how Jim Christie's Reuters article starts:

California's attorney general urged a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to permit gay marriages while it considers whether to overturn the state's ban on same-sex weddings. This misleading language is used throughout.

"Permit" and "ban" imply that two, three, or four men, or two, three, or four women can't have a "wedding" ceremony right now. They can.

The move follows a decision last week by U.S. President Barack Obama's administration that it would no longer defend the 15-year-old U.S. law defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, a major policy shift in favor of gay rights.

First of all, the federal DOMA has nothing to do with the state constitution of California. Secondly, DOMA did not define marriage as a bride+groom union. That was the existing definition, one that had been in place since, like, forever.

"There is no injury that the proponents of Proposition 8 will suffer if same-sex couples are permitted to enter into civil marriages in California," Harris added.

Disenfranchisement is one of the many harms.

Maura Dolan's LATimes.com reporting, repeated in several updates, uses the same biased phrasing.

"For 846 days Proposition 8 has denied equality under law to gay and lesbian couples," Harris told the court.

The very question under consideration is whether or not California is obligated to treat and name different kinds of associations as though they are the same.