California Proposition 8
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Atlanta mayoral candidates appeal to gay vote...Borders. Eleven days after the November vote, Norwood -- who would be the first white mayor of Atlanta since the 1970s -- was outside the state Capitol for a rally protesting Proposition 8, California's anti-gay-marriage measure. She told... In this article: Atlanta, Kasim Reed, and Maynard Jackson |
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Deseret News | 1 day ago
Marriage definitions vary widely
...and Maine this month. In the former, voters in November 2008 approved Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment reversing California's high court ruling five months earlier that legalized same-sex marriage. And Maine voters earlier...
In this article: California, District of Columbia, Maine, Proposition 8, E mail, Human Rights Act, Defense of Marriage Act, University of Southern California, and United States Congress
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Reuters | November 16, 2009
California gay marriage campaign kicks off
...be too soon to change enough minds to win the vote. California's Proposition 8, which limited marriage to a union between a man and a woman, passed with 52 percent support a year ago. The vote surprised gay rights advocates nationwide and...
In this article: California, Thomson Reuters, Proposition 8, All rights reserved, Small business, NYSE, Nasdaq, Equality California, and U.S.
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The Corner on National Review Online | November 13, 2009
Barney Frank Is Right -- By: Maggie Gallagher
...the same light? In a recent paper for the Heritage Foundation, Thomas Messner surveys the "naked animus'' that was directed against supporters of Proposition 8, the California marriage amendment that voters approved last year. His meticulously...
In this article: Jeff Jacoby, Proposition 8, Heritage Foundation, Boston Globe, and California
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Fox News | 1 day ago
Vigil Marks 31st Anniversary Of Milk, Moscone Assassination
...faced the AIDS crisis and other struggles. Many of those in attendance at Friday night's vigil called for a new effort to overturn Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California last year. LGBT activists remain divided on whether a...
In this article: Harvey Milk, George Moscone, Mark Leno, California, Dan White, All rights reserved, Proposition 8, and AIDS
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The Stanford Daily | November 04, 2009
Gay marriage supporters storm class
...law allowing same-sex marriage. The news was a blow to LGBT activists nationwide, coming exactly one year after California passed the similar gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, by a similar margin. "I've been crying for the last hour,"...
In this article: Maine, Proposition 8, and E mail
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Huffington Post | November 06, 2009
Carlos A. Ball: Keeping the Same-Sex Marriage Defeat in Maine in Perspective
...Optimistic About Maine I truly believe that Maine will become the first state in the nation to successfully defend marriage equality at the ballot box, providing a road map for California to repeal Proposition 8. Michael Kimmel: From...
In this article: Maine, Barack Obama, California, and Proposition 8
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washingtonpost.com | November 17, 2009
Corrections
...United Nations' nuclear watchdog. A Nov. 15 Outlook book review incorrectly described the Templeton Foundation as funding the Proposition 8 campaign to overturn California's law allowing same-sex marriage. John M. Templeton Jr., the...
In this article: Ralph Friedgen, University of Maryland football, Proposition 8, Templeton Foundation, First Emperor, North Carolina State, International Atomic Energy Agency, and United Nations
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New York Daily News | 12 hours ago
Alleged Tiger mistress goes to Gloria Allred for help
...McCartney. Not all Allred's cases are made for the tabloids. She's on the team working to repeal California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in the Golden State. Her brassy style have made her the butt of jokes on shows like...
In this article: Gloria Allred, Tiger Woods, Loyola Law School, Proposition 8, Nicole Brown Simpson, Scott Peterson, Heather Mills, and Paul McCartney
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Baltimore Sun | November 02, 2009
Maine and marriage
...as marriage. In California, those who favored the Proposition 8 ban warned that allowing same-sex couples to marry would somehow lead to the destruction of heterosexual marriage and represented an assault on religious beliefs. The reality...
In this article: Maine, Douglas F. Gansler, Maryland, Washington, D.C., California, Proposition 8, Tax, and Martin O'Malley
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Proposition 8 was a California ballot proposition passed in the November 4, 2008, general election. It changed the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to opposite-sex couples and eliminated same-sex couples' right to marry, thereby overriding portions of the ruling of In re Marriage Cases. The measure added a new section (7.5) to Article I, which reads: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." California's State Constitution put the measure into immediate effect on November 5, the day after the election. The proposition did not affect the existing domestic partnerships in California.
The campaigns for and against Proposition 8 raised $39.9 million and $43.3 million, respectively, becoming the highest-funded campaign on any state ballot that day and surpassing every campaign in the country in spending except the presidential contest. The proponents argued that exclusively heterosexual marriage was "an essential institution of society," that leaving the constitution unchanged would "result in public schools teaching our kids that gay marriage is okay," and that gays would "redefine marriage for everyone else." Opponents argued that "the freedom to marry is fundamental to our society," that the California constitution "should guarantee the same freedom and rights to everyone" and that the proposition "mandates one set of rules for gay and lesbian couples and another set for everyone else." They also argued that "equality under the law is a fundamental constitutional guarantee" (see Equal Protection Clause).
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