Jerry Brown: Extension of Liberty to Same-Sex Couples is the Future

California Attorney General Jerry Brown is once again speaking out against Proposition 8, this time in the context of the federal challenge to it by Ted Olson and David Boies, and the President's recent defense of DOMA.

Brown talked with CNN's Don Lemon about it, AFTER THE JUMP...

He also spoke with the L.A. Times:

"Brown, however, said that even though California is required to enforce Proposition 8, he is free to agree with the challengers that it violates the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Brown's position, laid out in a brief filed late Friday, puts the state's highest-ranking law enforcement officer on the record declaring that the ballot measure violates federal constitutional protections. The San Francisco case may eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court. At the same time, Brown argued that U.S. District Judge Vaughan Walker should not suspend Proposition 8 immediately because a higher court could reinstate it later and put same-sex couples in 'legal limbo.' ... 'Staying operation of Proposition 8, without the certainty of a final judgment as to its constitutionality, would leave same-sex couples, as well as their families, friends, and the wider community, in legal limbo,' Brown argued."

Watch Brown's CNN interview, AFTER THE JUMP...