Lawmakers ask S.F. archbishop not to attend anti-gay marriage rally - Los Angel Tim

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• THOANDS RALLY SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• PROP. 8 OPPONENTS RALLY ACROSS CALIFORNIA TO PROTT GAY-MARRIAGE BAN
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• THOANDS RALLY FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA VIEW SLISHOW ABOUT 10,000 PEOPLE GATHERED SATURDAY ALONG SPRG STREET DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL TO PROTT THE PASSAGE PROPOSN 8, THE BALLOT MEASURE THAT BANNED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) CHAT R. WARNER, OF THE BIBLE BELIEVERS LOS ANGEL CHAPTER, SHOUTS AT SUPPORTERS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DURG A UNTER-PROTT DOWNTOWN.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) LOS ANGEL POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS TIMATED 10,000 TO 12,000 PEOPLE SHOWED UP FOR THE PROPOSN 8 PROTT SATURDAY -- A MUCH SMALLER CROWD THAN THE 40,000 PEOPLE POLICE HAD EXPECTED.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) LAPD OFFICERS STAKE OUT POSNS FOR THEIR HORS ANTICIPATN OF THE RALLY.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) COUPLE MARK TRIGG, LEFT, AND PIERRE ALEXANDRE KABALAN SHOW THEIR SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) MEMBERS OF THE NONPROF GROUP CHEER LA PERFORM AS PROPOSN 8 PROTTERS MARCH ALONG MA STREET DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL. SUPPORTERS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ANIZED RALLI ACROSS THE UNTRY WHAT MANY SAY IS THE LATT RNATN OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) ABOUT 200 UPPORTERS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RALLIED SATURDAY AT SOUTH COAST PLAZA COSTA MA.  (CHRISTE COTTER / LOS ANGEL TIM) A PROPOSN 8 OPPONENT HOLDS A SIGN PARG THE GAY MARRIAGE ISSUE TO RACIAL SEGREGATN. EQUAL RIGHTS WAS A PROMENT MANTRA AT SATURDAY’S RALLI.  (CHRISTE COTTER / LOS ANGEL TIM) POLICE OFFICERS RT RUEBEN ISRAEL, OF BIBLE BELIEVERS, TO A NTRAL ZONE ONT OF CY HALL. DPE THE VIGORO BATE BETWEEN SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, THE RALLI REMAED PEACEFUL.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) HANK DONAT HOLDS A SIGN DURG A RALLY AGAST THE PASSAGE OF PROPOSN 8 SAN FRANCIS. IN ADDN TO THE SAN FRANCIS, L.A. AND COSTA MA EVENTS, THERE WAS A PROTT SACRAMENTO THAT DREW ABOUT 1,500 PEOPLE TO THE CAPOL.  (JT SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAG) 1/10SHOW SLI INFORMATN THOANDS RALLY FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA
• ILLOIS GAY MARRIAGE RALLY DRAWS PROTTERS TO SPRGFIELD
• GAY MARRIAGE: DANCG, SGG AT WT HOLLYWOOD RALLY AFTER LGS
• LAWMAKERS ASK S.F. ARCHBISHOP NOT TO ATTEND ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE RALLY
• THOANDS RALLY CALIFORNIA’S HEARTLAND SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE

THOANDS RALLY SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE BAN

Thoands of supporters of California’s ban on same-sex marriage rallied Frno and San Diego on Sunday what anizers scribed as a celebratn of tradnal wedlock and a thank-you to the California Supreme Court for upholdg their voter-approved monstratns followed Saturday’s gatherg of gay rights supporters Frno to renew efforts to reverse Proposn 8, which the high urt let stand early last duelg weekend ralli unrsred the fact that, spe an electn and a Supreme Court cisn, the issue of same-sex marriage remas divisive San Diego, about 200 Proposn 8 supporters were told to gird for what speakers said will be future polil, legal and “culture war” Dac of the Sacramento-based Pacific Jtice Instute urged the crowd outsi the unty admistratn buildg to be ready for “the next battle, the next battle and the next battle, whout surrenr. ”Speaker after speaker Frno exhorted atten to rpect the relig unrpngs of tradnal the rally broke up, about 25 gay rights activists surround a group of Christian Harley-Davidson motorcyclists who lled themselv the Frno Motorcycle police tervened and the motorcyclists left peacefully. ”Among the speakers at the San Diego rally were Ron Nehrg, chairman of the California Republin Party, and Will Prejean, father of Miss California Carrie Prejean, whose anti-gay marriage ments have ed ntroversy.

Reportg om San Francis and Los Angel — Exprsg anger, disappotment and humor, thoands of gay-rights advot marched across the state and natn Saturday largely peaceful protts agast California’s passage of an iative banng same-sex Los Angel, protters cltered shoulr to shoulr near Cy Hall before settg off on a downtown march, chantg and rryg rabow flags and signs bearg msag such as “No More Mr. Nice Gay” and “No on Hate. 8 has passed and the electn is now over, ” said Frank Schubert, manager for the Y on Proposn 8 San Francis, a crowd timated by police at 7, 500 nverged on the cy’s civic center, some wearg T-shirts emblazoned wh “Milk, ” a reference to the unty’s first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, who was assassated 30 years ago.

Brgg childrenThe ralli brought out a diverse crowd that clud straight as well as gay Chan and her hband brought their two children -- Kalea, 6, and Koa, 2 -- to the monstratn San Francis. ”Invokg relignAmong about half a dozen Proposn 8 supporters at Los Angel Cy Hall was Dan Burton, 50, a retired air traffic ntroller, who held a sign that read, “Gays hate God. “Most people this untry don’t want gay marriage, bee ’s blogilly, culturally and religly perverse.

PROP. 8 OPPONENTS RALLY ACROSS CALIFORNIA TO PROTT GAY-MARRIAGE BAN

” Proposn 8 opponent Carl Hunter, 64, rried a sign readg, “Christians for gay marriage. ” “Where’s My Gay Tax Break?

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

Gays only want one. ”“I was born gay. ”Gays and blacksA nng theme durg the Los Angel monstratn was the role of Ain Amerins the passage of the anti-gay-marriage measure.

THOANDS RALLY FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA VIEW SLISHOW ABOUT 10,000 PEOPLE GATHERED SATURDAY ALONG SPRG STREET DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL TO PROTT THE PASSAGE PROPOSN 8, THE BALLOT MEASURE THAT BANNED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) CHAT R. WARNER, OF THE BIBLE BELIEVERS LOS ANGEL CHAPTER, SHOUTS AT SUPPORTERS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DURG A UNTER-PROTT DOWNTOWN.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) LOS ANGEL POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS TIMATED 10,000 TO 12,000 PEOPLE SHOWED UP FOR THE PROPOSN 8 PROTT SATURDAY -- A MUCH SMALLER CROWD THAN THE 40,000 PEOPLE POLICE HAD EXPECTED.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) LAPD OFFICERS STAKE OUT POSNS FOR THEIR HORS ANTICIPATN OF THE RALLY.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) COUPLE MARK TRIGG, LEFT, AND PIERRE ALEXANDRE KABALAN SHOW THEIR SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) MEMBERS OF THE NONPROF GROUP CHEER LA PERFORM AS PROPOSN 8 PROTTERS MARCH ALONG MA STREET DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL. SUPPORTERS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ANIZED RALLI ACROSS THE UNTRY WHAT MANY SAY IS THE LATT RNATN OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) ABOUT 200 UPPORTERS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RALLIED SATURDAY AT SOUTH COAST PLAZA COSTA MA.  (CHRISTE COTTER / LOS ANGEL TIM) A PROPOSN 8 OPPONENT HOLDS A SIGN PARG THE GAY MARRIAGE ISSUE TO RACIAL SEGREGATN. EQUAL RIGHTS WAS A PROMENT MANTRA AT SATURDAY’S RALLI.  (CHRISTE COTTER / LOS ANGEL TIM) POLICE OFFICERS RT RUEBEN ISRAEL, OF BIBLE BELIEVERS, TO A NTRAL ZONE ONT OF CY HALL. DPE THE VIGORO BATE BETWEEN SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, THE RALLI REMAED PEACEFUL.  (BARBARA DAVIDSON / LOS ANGEL TIM) HANK DONAT HOLDS A SIGN DURG A RALLY AGAST THE PASSAGE OF PROPOSN 8 SAN FRANCIS. IN ADDN TO THE SAN FRANCIS, L.A. AND COSTA MA EVENTS, THERE WAS A PROTT SACRAMENTO THAT DREW ABOUT 1,500 PEOPLE TO THE CAPOL.  (JT SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAG) 1/10SHOW SLI INFORMATN THOANDS RALLY FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA

Gay & Lbian Center.

Durg the urse of a turbulent for gay marriage, the uple have been married three tim. They wed 2003, before gay marriage was legal. A year later, when San Francis began marryg gay upl, they married aga, only to see the urts annul their unn.

Last month, Ulrich, 39, and Drennen, 35, went through another ceremony the wake of the state Supreme Court’s landmark lg that legalized gay marriage. 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.

ILLOIS GAY MARRIAGE RALLY DRAWS PROTTERS TO SPRGFIELD

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. Flags and signs that read, "California Needs Love Not Hate, " and "Gays on Strike.

GAY MARRIAGE: DANCG, SGG AT WT HOLLYWOOD RALLY AFTER LGS

(Christe Cotter / Los Angel Tim) A Proposn 8 opponent holds a sign parg the gay marriage issue to racial segregatn.

" Watch both sis argue issue of same-sex marriage » Meanwhile, those prottg the bans chanted, "Gay, straight, black, whe; marriage is a civil right. October 22, 2013 (CHICAGO) It on the same day state lawmakers returned to Sprgfield, five months after legislatn to legalize gay marriage stalled the Illois Hoe.

Lawmakers do not expect a vote on gay marriage until the first week of November. But on Tuday activists' foc remaed on the gay marriage issue. After the matter wasn't lled for a vote the Hoe, activists and gay rights groups revamped their mpaign by hirg a top unn lobbyist, anizers across the state and the former chairman of the Illois Republin Party.

LAWMAKERS ASK S.F. ARCHBISHOP NOT TO ATTEND ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE RALLY

"We're wh strikg distance, but I'm not makg a predictn bee were promised this was gog to happen May, " said Chigo gay marriage advote Rick Garcia. C., that allow gay marriage. Jubilant gay marriage supporters turned out Wt Hollywood on Wednday eveng for a lively celebratn of the Supreme Court’s lgs on DOMA and Proposn the rally at the rner of Santa Moni and San Vicente boulevards, people danced and waved rabow flags.

8, DOMA qutns answeredRick Watts rried his handma sign wh a checklist: “My Gay Agenda. “See, the gay agenda’s not so sry, ” said Watts, a Wt Hollywood rint and member of the cy’s disabili advisory Wheeler, 23, drove wh her two bt iends, Luis Esla, 23, and Ashley Kobe Gomez, 23, -- all three of them are gay or lbian --om Pi Rivera to attend the rally. Wheeler wore a shirt that said “Gay OK” and clutched a sign readg “I Do Support the Freedom to Marry.

THOANDS RALLY CALIFORNIA’S HEARTLAND SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE

If he attends as schled, they noted, he will be “marchg and sharg the podium” wh dividuals who “have repeatedly nigrated lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people. ”The letter then quot other event participants who have likened homosexualy to ct and standg alongsi those participants and anizers, “you appear to be endorsg their troublg words and eds, which directly ntradict the U. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ pastoral teachg that ‘God do not love someone any ls simply bee he or she is homosexual.