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

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• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• 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
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS APPROVE GAY-MARRIAGE BAN
• UNNSTUTNAL: FERAL COURT OVERTURNS PROPOSN 8, GAY MARRIAGE BAN CALIFORNIA
• IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL CALIFORNIA?

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 2020, Nevada beme the first state to ensure the right to same-sex marriage s state nstutn. 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state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to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.

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

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.

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. “For the hundreds of thoands of Californians gay and lbian hoeholds who are managg their day-to-day liv, this cisn affirms the full legal protectns and safeguards I believe everyone serv. In holdg that Prop 8 nnot stand bee vlat the equal protectn and due procs rights of California’s lbian and gay upl, this cisn adds to the growg nsens urts and legislatur across the untry that there are no good reasons for excludg same-sex upl om marriage.

“The urt examed the range of exc ed by anti-gay groups to jtify this ernment discrimatn agast same-sex upl. The ttimony of leadg experts on everythg om child velopment to adult psychology to the public sts of anti-gay discrimatn laid bare the misrmatn and outright li that anti-gay groups have been phg on the public. It doubtls will help more people see that anti-gay discrimatn marriage is stctive and unjtifiable.

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

District Judge Vghn Walker led [[Read the cisn]()] the su filed by two gay upl who claimed the ban vlated their civil rights. Gay rights advot and civil libertarians say the battle is a fight for equal rights, while opponents, cludg many relig nservativ, see same-sex marriage as a threat to the “tradnal fay. “Proposn 8 fails to advance any ratnal basis sglg out gay men and lbians for nial of a marriage license.

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.

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

” 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. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.

Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later. (AP)A feral judge on Wednday overturned a California ban on same-sex marriage, lg that the Proposn 8 ballot iative was unnstutnal, but a pendg appeal of the landmark lg uld prevent gay weddgs om rumg the state any time lg by U. District Judge Vgh Walker, one of three openly gay feral judg the untry, gave opponents of the ntroversial Proposn 8 ballot a major upl wavg rabow and Amerin flags outsi the urthoe cheered, hugged and kissed as word of the lg spread.

"Dpe the favorable lg for same-sex upl, gay marriage will not be allowed to rume. California voters passed the ban as Proposn 8 November 2008, five months after the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS APPROVE GAY-MARRIAGE BAN

"Proposn 8 fails to advance any ratnal basis sglg out gay men and lbians for nial of a marriage license. Ined, the evince shows Proposn 8 do nothg more than enshre the California Constutn the notn that oppose-sex upl are superr to same-sex upl, " the judge wrote a 136-page lg that laid out precise tail why the ban do not pass nstutnal judge found that the gay marriage ban vlat the Constutn's due procs and equal protectn cls. "Bee Proposn 8 disadvantag gays and lbians whout any ratnal jtifitn, Proposn 8 vlat the Equal Protectn Clse of the Fourteenth Amendment, " the judge sis prevly said an appeal was certa if Walker did not le their favor.

UNNSTUTNAL: FERAL COURT OVERTURNS PROPOSN 8, GAY MARRIAGE BAN CALIFORNIA

"In Ameri, we should uphold and rpect the right of people to make policy chang through the mocratic procs, pecially chang that do nothg more than uphold the fn of marriage that has existed sce the foundg of this untry and beyond, " said Jim Campbell, a lawyer on the fense heard 13 days of ttimony and arguments sce January durg the first trial feral urt to exame if stat n prohib gays om gettg verdict was the send a feral gay marriage se to e down recent weeks. A feral judge Massachetts cid last month the state's legally married gay upl had been wrongly nied the feral fancial benefs of marriage bee of a law preventg the U. Amic experts ttified about topics rangg om the fns of gay parents and relig views on homosexualy to the historil meang of marriage and the polil fluence of the gay rights U.

He told Judge Walker that tradn or fears of harm to heterosexual unns were legally sufficient grounds to discrimate agast gay teamed up wh David Boi to argue the se, brgg together the two ligators bt known for reprentg Gee W. The attorneys also said gay marriage was an experiment wh unknown social nsequenc that should be left to voters to accept or U. Supreme Court uld overturn the 2015 landmark lg that legalized gay marriag — jt as Jtice Clarence Thomas has voters n remove om the state’s nstutn.

IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL CALIFORNIA?

Voters put a stop to same-sex marriage California, alg a cshg feat to gay-rights activists and puttg doubt as many as 18, 000 same-sex marriag nducted sce a urt lg ma them legal this rights activists Stuart Gaffney, left, and John Lewis walk outsi the San Francis cy hall buildg where they married this past summer, San Francis on Wednday. ((Marc Jose Sanchez/Associated Prs))Voters put a stop to same-sex marriage California on Tuday, alg a cshg feat to gay-rights activists and puttg doubt as many as 18, 000 same-sex marriag nducted sce a urt lg ma them legal this gay-rights movement had a rough electn elsewhere as amendments were approved Arizona and Florida, and Arkansas voters approved a measure banng unmarried upl om servg as adoptive or foster parents. Supporters of the Arkansas measure ma clear that gays and lbians were their ma California, the natn's most populo state, had been the big prize.

Californians overwhelmgly passed a same-sex marriage ban 2000, but gay-rights supporters had hoped public opn on the issue had shifted enough for this year's measure to be rejected. Existg marriag still valid, state saysAbout 18, 000 gay upl have married California. The urt refed to hear a siar petn June, when gay-rights activists tried to knock the measure off the ballot.