California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. Voters uld remove next year | AP News

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• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• LAWMAKERS WANT CA VOTERS TO OFFICIALLY STRIKE DOWN PROP. 8, THE BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE MEASURE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• PROP 8 LG EXPLAED: WHY GAY MARRIAGE WILL RUME CALIFORNIA
• PROP. 8 AND DOMA: THE ROAD TO GAY MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• JUDGE STRIK DOWN PROP. 8, ALLOWS GAY MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

The measure put gay and lbian marriag on hold the state, but a feral appeals urt 2010 emed Proposn 8 se ma s way to the US Supreme Court, which dismissed an appeal 2013 over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg private parti did not have standg to fend California’s voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned lg cleared the way for same-sex marriag the state to rume and Proposn 8 has remaed on the books but unenforced.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U. Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right. Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor.

Wh over 13 ln vot st, California voters approve Proposn 8 on November 4, 2008, amendg the state’s nstutn to ban same-sex months earlier, May 2008, the California Supreme Court had emed the state’s ban on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, makg California the send state the untry to legalize gay marriage.

Californian voters received robolls om former print Bill Clton askg them to vote no on the measure, while actors om the televisn show “Ugly Betty” argued Spanish-language TV spots that votg no “is not about beg gay or straight, ” but “about beg Amerin. ”The Protect Marriage mpaign supportg Proposn 8 nstantly voked the “far-reachg nsequenc” of legal gay marriage, particularly the implitn that school curriculums would be required to teach that gay marriage is “the same as tradnal marriage.

LAWMAKERS WANT CA VOTERS TO OFFICIALLY STRIKE DOWN PROP. 8, THE BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE MEASURE

” Pollster David Fleischer, his analysis of the electn rults, found that the greatt shift toward “Y” among uncid voters was “among parents wh children unr 18 livg at home—many of them whe Democrats, ” who feared the effects of legal gay marriage on their children’s public tn. READ MORE: The Supreme Court Rulgs That Have Shaped Gay Rights AmeriAlso on This Day History November | 4. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later.

PROP 8 LG EXPLAED: WHY GAY MARRIAGE WILL RUME CALIFORNIA

8 Gay Marriage Rulg. After passed, the proposn was immediately challenged urt by gay marriage proponents, and six months later the California Supreme Court, a lopsid 6-1 cisn, issued a long-awaed lg which affirmed that the voters had the right to amend the nstutn. In anger, gay marriage supporters held prott ralli around the state (and around the untry as well), the largt beg San Francis, the epicenter of the gay rights movement.

PROP. 8 AND DOMA: THE ROAD TO GAY MARRIAGE

That is, at least until 2010, when gay marriage proponents have already promised a new proposn re-amendg the state nstutn to allow same-sex marriag. At which pot, gay marriage opponents have promised a re-n of Proposn back and forth until the end of time, or until California voters out of sheer wears vote to ban marriage altogether, gay or straight. But we may not need to wa that long, bee a feral lawsu has already been filed seekg not only to overturn Proposn 8 the Uned Stat Supreme Court but also thereby to make gay marriage legal natnwi, permanently.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

One last note: I myself have no problem wh the ncept of gay marriage, and voted "No" on Prop. Bee even though I personally am OK wh gay marriage, I value the prcipl of mocracy even more, and if the will of the people is to amend the state nstutn, then that is their right -- and I feel would have set a terrible precent to throw out the rults of a statewi electn jt bee the losg si didn't like the rults. For example, this woman is "Too gay to pay tax.

" In what way do help the e of gay marriage to announce that you plan to cheat on your tax as a form of prott?

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

If the goal is to make gay marriage appear acceptable to the mastream, is really a good strategy to drs full tranny regalia at the rally?

Note to self: Maybe wasn't such a good ia to display X-rated gay porn alongsi my "No on 8" buttons.

" The pot beg, you should boytt Marrtt, sce Mormons are anti-gay marriage. Gay is the new Black?

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

The primary legal and social argument at the rally was to draw a close parison between the civil rights movement of the '50s and the gay marriage movement of today; or, as this sign (and many siar signs) put ,. "Gay is the new Black! The goal is to posn gay-marriage advot as the fenrs of civil rights, and to drag race to the discsn -- the implitn beg, the same type of racist bigots who opposed civil rights for Blacks 50 years ago are now opposg marriag for gays.

JUDGE STRIK DOWN PROP. 8, ALLOWS GAY MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA

30% No), not to mentn that Hispanics also voted to ban gay marriage, whereas only whe voters (by a narrow marg) voted agast Prop.

Of urse, the gay marriage post-electn advot don't like this narrative. 8, I am not jog the move to have the electn overturned -- which is why I distguish "gay marriage post-electn advot" and "people at the prott" om gay marriage supporters general.

I tagged along and eavdropped on other reporters terviewg passersby; while most of the whe terviewe were favor of gay marriage, whenever a reporter terviewed a Black or Hispanic onlooker, most were unapologetic their opposn to gay marriage.