Contents:
- LBIAN AND GAY COUPL SAN FRANCIS ARE GRANTED MARRIAGE LICENS
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- ACLU AND GAY RIGHTS GROUPS PRAISE COURT'S DECISN TO PERM SAN FRANCIS TO CONTUE GRANTG MARRIAGE LICENS TO SAME-SEX COUPL
LBIAN AND GAY COUPL SAN FRANCIS ARE GRANTED MARRIAGE LICENS
12, 2004, turned to a 29-day saga durg which more than 4, 000 upl wed, tapultg Newsom to the natnal move drew reb om social nservativ and proment Democrats, cludg gay rights ins and Newsom’s polil mentors.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
The fallout rippled to the 2004 printial electn and the succsful 2008 mpaign for Proposn 8, which banned gay marriag , five years sce the U.
”There was no ht that gay marriage would be anywhere on Newsom’s agenda when he ran for mayor 2003. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francis), has said that was the moment he knew he had to do after he told his chief of staff, Steve Kawa, who is gay, that he tend to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl. ”The hatn was shared by proment gay rights activists.
”The mayor’s growg natnal stature as a gay rights warrr irked some who long had worked for the e. “I really thk he stood on the shoulrs of a lot of people who had suffered and died, ” said Tom Ammiano, a former supervisor and assemblyman who is gay.
ACLU AND GAY RIGHTS GROUPS PRAISE COURT'S DECISN TO PERM SAN FRANCIS TO CONTUE GRANTG MARRIAGE LICENS TO SAME-SEX COUPL
), who is gay, said Newsom had imperiled the strategy Massachetts — to show that allowg same-sex marriage one state would not be disptive — before the right was pursued elsewhere. ”The California Supreme Court ultimately stck down the state’s gay marriage ban 2008, promptg a triumphant Newsom to clare that marriage equaly would happen “whether you like or not. 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.