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• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• 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
• CALIFORNIA UPHOLDS GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• CALIFORNIA GAY MARRIAGE NEWS MONORG

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years 2020, Nevada beme the first state to ensure the right to same-sex marriage s state nstutn.

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. The nstutnal amendment is still on the books, however, and that worri advot who thk the high urt may revis the 2015 se that legalized gay marriage natnwi.

When passed, felt personal to Low, who is gay. SACRAMENTO — More than 18 years after Gav Newsom fied feral law by issug marriage licens to same-sex upl as San Francis mayor, Print Bin is on the cp of signg legislatn that ensur gay marriag are regnized by the feral ernment and every state the natn. “As much as this is a very important issue to gay and lbian people who are marriag or look forward to beg marriag, ” Michelson said, “I doubt that is the issue that is gog to be at the top of people’s mds when to future printial rac.

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

Proposn 8 has yet to be repealed bee there was ls urgency to do so after the state was allowed to rume issug marriage licens to same-sex upl and gay marriage was legalized natnwi, Wiener said. 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.

” 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.

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

READ MORE: The Supreme Court Rulgs That Have Shaped Gay Rights AmeriAlso on This Day History November | 4. May 26, 2009— -- The California Supreme Court has upheld Proposn 8, the ntroversial ballot iative that banned same-sex marriage the state of the same time, the lg allows about 18, 000 same-sex upl who'd already married to reta the rights they attaed durg the brief six-month perd that gay marriage was legal the state.

CALIFORNIA UPHOLDS GAY MARRIAGE BAN

"Gay rights advot, disappoted wh the lg, said their next step would be to "take back to the voters.

"We will give tn and legal support as part of a broad effort all over the state to provi greater visibily on why this issue is important and why there is no basis the fear mongerg om the other si, " Pizer told ntent mpaign pted gay rights activists agast Christian church groups, cludg the Mormon church, which raised a rerd $83 ln to pass the iative. Those sus claim Proposn 8 was put on the ballot rights march began early this morng California and groups have planned ralli tonight, preparg to be arrted a mass monstratn of civil the Impact, which has fought to overturn the gay marriage ban, said they would be anizg natnal grass roots protts Day of Decisn ralli. Puttg a new qutn on the ballot to legalize gay marriage uld take months, and many gay advot said might not be viable until 2010 or later.

CALIFORNIA GAY MARRIAGE NEWS MONORG

"We have a lot of tg to do to nvce [voters] that gays and lbians are equal, " said Lambda legal's Pizer. "How gay marriage affects my [tradtnal] marriage is entirely the wrong qutn, " he said.