COBB SUPPORTS SAME SEX MARRIAGE

COBB SUPPORTS SAME SEX MARRIAGE, CONDEMNS
CALIFORNIA COURT RULING

(San Francisco) -- Green Presidential Candidate
David Cobb joined Greens in San Francisco
yesterday in condemning Thursday's California
Supreme Court ruling which voided marriage
licenses issued to same-sex couples in San
Francisco earlier this year.

Appearing at a protest rally of about 2000 people
gathered on the steps of City Hall, San Francisco
Green Party county council member Dr. Paul Quick
read a statement from Cobb on the decision.

"The right to marry is an equal rights issue,"
said Cobb. "Courts have historically been wrong
and socially behind the times and the California
Supreme Court is no exception. The Dred Scott
decision said a black man was property and had no
rights that a white man was bound to respect. In
Plessy v. Ferguson, the Court upheld Jim Crow
segregation laws. The Supreme Court also upheld
state laws preventing women from voting until the
Nineteenth Amendment was passed, superceding all
those prohibitive state laws. Like these earlier
decisions, the decision of the California Supreme
Court is an affront to human rights and human
dignity and will not stand the test of time."

Addressing the crowd, Quick said, "I bring you
greetings and solidarity from the only party that
fully supports the rights of lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people
and the party that fully supports the right to
marry. That party is the Green Party."

Quick told the crowd that voting for Cobb was a
way to demonstrate support for gay rights and the
right to marry. Because California's Electoral
College votes are virtually assured to go to the
Democratic Party, Quick said that "if you live in
California, there is no chance of helping to
elect Bush. You can vote your conscience without
reservation. You can vote for the candidate who
supports your rights and who will work with you
to change politics for the better."

"We have to keep organizing and demanding our
civil rights if we're going to create the civil
society we want," said Cobb.

For more information on the Cobb-LaMarche
campaign, go to <http://www.votecobb.org .
Information on the Green Party can be found at
<http://www.gp.org .