An outline of awesomeness

 Prop 8 Respondents Brief (against Calif's Proposition 8) extract restated in outline form (because I think it's awesome). Hat-tip to Dante Atkins at DailyKOS.

Note: Link will open a PDF file.

This extract starts at the bottom of page 3:

1. Proposition 8's unmistakable purpose and effect is to
1. stigmatize gay men and lesbians—
1. and them alone—
2. enshrine in California’s Constitution that gay men/women
1. are “unequal to everyone else”
2. committed relationships are ineligible for the designation “marriage,” 
3. unworthy of that “most important relation in life.” 
2. The obligation to identify and rectify discrimination in all its forms 
1. society or the courts cannot be absolved by
1. tradition
2. fear of change
3. an “interest in democratic self-governance”
3. If a history of discrimination were sufficient to justify its perpetual existence, as Proponents argue, 
1. public schools, drinking fountains, and swimming pools 
1. would still be segregated by race, 
2. government workplaces and military institutions 
1. would still be largely offlimits 
1. to one sex—
2. and to gays and lesbians, 
3. marriage 
1. would still be unattainable for interracial couples. 
4. Yet the Fourteenth Amendment 
1. could not tolerate 
1. those discriminatory practices, 
2. and it similarly does not tolerate 
1. the permanent exclusion of gay men and lesbians 
1. from the most important relation in life. 
5. “In respect of civil rights, 
1. all citizens are equal before the law.” 
1. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, 559 (1896) (Harlan, J., dissenting).