{"id":4656,"date":"2008-08-11T01:41:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T09:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/11\/court-issues-ruling-on-transitive-verbs-in-gay-marriage-case\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T01:41:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T09:01:20","slug":"court-issues-ruling-on-transitive-verbs-in-gay-marriage-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4656","title":{"rendered":"Court Issues Ruling On Transitive Verbs In Gay Marriage Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California Court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/2008\/08\/08\/2544\">has ruled<\/a> that proposition 8 &#8212; which, if passed, will change the California constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry &#8212; can be officially described as: &#8220;Changes California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The folks behind proposition 8 had sued to&#8230; well, to prevent voters from being told exactly what their measure does. Apparently they feel that the more voters know what proposition 8 does, the fewer will vote for it.<\/p>\n<p>Best line from the judge&#8217;s ruling (<a href=\"http:\/\/pdfserver.amlaw.com\/ca\/prop8_0811.pdf\">pdf link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is nothing inherently argumentative or prejudicial about transitive verbs, and the Court is not willing to fashion a rule that would require the Attorney General to engage in useless nominalization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;d enjoy watching the news if high government officials were required to engage in useless <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nominalization\">nominalization <\/a>at all times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California Court has ruled that proposition 8 &#8212; which, if passed, will change the California constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry &#8212; can be officially described as: &#8220;Changes California Constitution to eliminate the right of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4656\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}