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

Contents:

• CALIFORNIA COURT AFFIRMS RIGHT TO GAY MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• CALIFORNIA VOT TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE BAN OVERTURNED
• 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
• PROP 8 LG EXPLAED: WHY GAY MARRIAGE WILL RUME CALIFORNIA
• 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 COURT AFFIRMS RIGHT TO GAY MARRIAGE

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.

CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS GAY MARRIAGE BAN

”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. on the gay liftyle.

benefi ts of gay or lbian domtic partnerships. ) If the gay marriage lg is not overturned,.

CALIFORNIA VOT TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE

there is no difference between gay marriage and tradnal. schools teachg our kids that gay marriage is okay.

rights of gay domtic partnerships.

wh gays livg the liftyle they choose. However, while gays have the right to their private liv, they do.

GAY MARRIAGE BAN OVERTURNED

If gay activists want to legalize gay marriage,.

WOULD DENY LESBIAN AND GAY COUPLES that same.

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

GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLES AND ANOTHER SET FOR. MARRIAGE FOR GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLES, PEOPLE. everyone California—straight, gay, or lbian—serv.

↑ Huffgton Post, "Supreme Court Rul On Prop 8, Lets Gay Marriage Rume In California, " June 26, 2013.

News, "McCa Supports Efforts to Ban Gay Marriage, " June 27, 2008.

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

↑ The Jewish Daily Forward, "Orthodox Jo Fight Agast Gay Nuptials, " Augt 28, 2008.

PROP 8 LG EXPLAED: WHY GAY MARRIAGE WILL RUME CALIFORNIA

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTJune 17, 2008SAN FRANCISCO — Wh a seri of simple “I dos, ” gay upl across California gurated the state’s urt-approved and potentially short-lived legalizatn of same-sex marriage on Monday, the first of what is expected to be a csh of such unns g weeks. In San Francis, Del Mart, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84, longtime gay rights activists, were the first and only uple to be wed here, sayg their vows the office of Mayor Gav Newsom, before emergg to a throng of reporters and screamg well-wishers. ” Outsi Cy Hall, several hundred supporters and protters chanted, cheered and jeered equal measure, givg an unly rnival feel to the scene, plete wh a marchg band playg weddg songs and signs readg “Homo Sex is S.

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

Atkson and staff members were at a gay pri celebratn Sonoma handg out applitns for marriage licens to prospective newlyweds. In ral Kern County, north of Los Angel, the unty clerk has nceled all weddgs performed by her office, a posn she took after nsultg wh the Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona legal group that argu agast marriage for gay men and lbians. “In view of the substance and signifince of the fundamental nstutnal right to form a fay relatnship, ” he wrote, “the California Constutn properly mt be terpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex upl as well as to oppose-sex upl.

”Supporters of gay marriage said the lg was a tone. ”Other state high urts to nsir the qutn of gay marriage recent years, cludg those New York, New Jersey and Washgton, have been closely divid but stopped short of strikg down state laws forbiddg . “In view of the substance and signifince of the fundamental nstutnal right to form a fay relatnship, ” Chief Jtice Gee wrote, “the California Constutn properly mt be terpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex upl as well as to oppose-sex upl.

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

Walker failed to rece himself or disclose he was a gay relatnship. District Judge Jam Ware said Tuday that former Chief Judge Vghn Walker did not have to divulge whether he wanted to marry his own gay partner before he clared last year that voter-approved Proposn 8 was unnstutnal.

District Judge Vghn Walker led Thursday that gay marriag n beg aga on Aug. 11, 2010 – Two gay and lbian upl are at the center of a feral trial on the nstutnaly of Proposn 8 San Francis. 4, 2008 - California voters adopted the nstutnal amendment outlawg same-sex marriage, overturng the state Supreme Court cisn jt months earlier givg gay upl the right to wed.

May 15, 2008 - The California Supreme Court led the law was unnstutnal bee discrimated agast gays, and an timated 18, 000 same-sex upl got married the ensug months. Ameris|California vot to ban gay marriage ADVERTISEMENTOct. Elsewhere, voters Colorado and South Dakota rejected measur that uld have led to sweepg bans of abortn, and Washgton beme only the send state - after Oregon - to offer termally ill people the optn of physician-assisted California measure lims marriage to heterosexual upl, the first time such a vote has taken place state where gay unns are legal.