Gav Newsom was jumpg to the r, head to a breakfast speech on job creatn, when a monplace day turned extraordary: The Supreme Court of the Uned Stat had affirmed the right of gays to marry.
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- GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE
- CALIFORNIA’S NEW ERNOR MA NAME WH GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE
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Gav Newsom was jumpg to the r, head to a breakfast speech on job creatn, when a monplace day turned extraordary: The Supreme Court of the Uned Stat had affirmed the right of gays to rights have been fought for over s.
But among the polil class, Newsom was the protagonist who almost sglehandly wrenched gay marriage onto California’s radar. As San Francis mayor 2004 he phed the cy to issue marriage licens to gay upl, openg a turbulent 11-year siege of unns celebrated and blocked, anti-marriage mpaigns and urt battl, and public opposn that slowly then swiftly turned to public Friday, a majory of the urt’s jtic announced that they, too, saw gay marriage as a basic right too long nied.
Not after the ballot measur all over the untry subsequent years that sought to forbid gay marriage.
CALIFORNIA’S NEW ERNOR MA NAME WH GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
12, 2004, ma the first municipaly the natn to issue marriage licens to gay upl. It was a rebell gture: Gay marriage was illegal almost everywhere, cludg the state of California. Senators, om the Bay area — were opposed to gay marriage.
A Los Angel Tim poll taken two months after Newsom’s actn showed that only 31% of Californians supported gay marriage, while 40% nsired morally ’s actn was ultimately quashed by the urts but he remaed an tegral player, the worst way. In May of 2008, when the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, he growled out a fger-potg, tntg msage to gay marriage opponents.