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.

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

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state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn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

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

“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.

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

“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.

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

It doubtls will help more people see that anti-gay discrimatn marriage is stctive and unjtifiable.

District Judge Vghn Walker led [[Read the cisn]()] the su filed by two gay upl who claimed the ban vlated their civil rights.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS APPROVE GAY-MARRIAGE BAN

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.

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

“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.

” 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.

IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL CALIFORNIA?

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.