California voters will be asked to affirm gay marriage rights on the 2024 ballot followg Prop. 8 ncerns about the state nstutn.
Contents:
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- 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
- 47 HOE REPUBLINS VOTED FOR GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS. YOUR TURN, SENATE GOP.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
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CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
”Of urse, wasn’t so long ago when same-sex marriage was a non-starter for elected Democrats, the 2004 printial electn, the issue prented a polil quagmire for former senator and secretary of state John Kerry, a Massachetts Democrat who at the time opposed gay marriage but also opposed legislatn that would amend the nstutn to fe marriage as beg between a man and a woman.
”Support for gay marriage among the Amerin public and both parti has ntued to rise.
“The gay marriage change is unlike almost anythg else terms of how much public opn has changed a short number of years, ” he says. Ron DeSantis and his “Don’t Say Gay” law to the newly adopted Texas Republin platform, which refers to homosexualy as “an abnormal liftyle choice.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Tammy Baldw, a Wisns Democrat who, 2012, was the first openly gay person to be elected to the Senate, to lobby her Republin lleagu hop of nfirmg support for the measure om 10 of them, which would give Democrats the 60 vot they need to overe a ’s been slow-gog so far, wh GOP members patg the bill as electn-year polics, sayg they haven’t read the bill yet, argug that ’s unnecsary and downplayg the threat of Supreme Court reversal – spe Jtice Clarence Thomas suggtg a ncurrg opn the Dobbs v.
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47 HOE REPUBLINS VOTED FOR GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS. YOUR TURN, SENATE GOP.
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ImageKen Mehlman, seen 2010, has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly Heisler/The New York TimMr. Mehlman, who has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly polici, also leaned on a work of Republins that he enlisted 2019 to urge the Supreme Court to clare that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 explicly prohibs discrimatn agast gay men, lbians and transgenr people the workplace.