California Same Sex Marriage

Is High-Speed Rail Losing Supporters?

| Posted 05.08.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Will Evans With most Californians worried about the state budget and opposed to trigge...

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Robin Wilkey

California Poll Reveals Huge News For Same-Sex Marriage

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 02.29.2012

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A recent California poll has infused a huge dose of hope into the state's battle for marriage equality. On Wednesday, a Field Poll revealed that 59...

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PHOTOS: The Hollywood Hordes That Helped Defeat Prop 8

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles & Anna Almendrala | Posted 02.07.2012

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California's 2008 ban on gay marriage was ruled unconstitutional on Tuesday by a federal appeals court, and while most of Los Angeles will be out part...

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Judge Deals Major Blow To Gay Marriage Supporters

Posted 04.03.2012

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A video recording of the 2010 trial that challenged the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, will...

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'Pivotal' Prop 8 Decision Due

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 01.17.2012

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By Lisa Lef, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- California's highest court says ballot proposition sponsors can step in to defend their initiatives ...

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It's Time for a 'Protect Marriage' Movement That Protects All Marriages

Rev. Ed Bacon | Posted 01.10.2012

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Rev. Ed Bacon

As the Senate Judiciary Committee begins debate on the Respect for Marriage Act on Capitol Hill, our nation takes a much-needed step toward making liberty and justice for all not just a pledge but a reality.

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We All Have an Equal Stake

Stuart Gaffney | Posted 12.24.2011

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Stuart Gaffney

In an ancillary opinion in the Prop 8 litigation, Chief Judge Ware explained more clearly than ever how we all benefit when we protect the fundamental rights of each other. The members of the targeted minority group are not the only ones who gain.

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Federal Court Deals Another Big Setback To Gay Marriage Supporters

AP | Posted 11.27.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court has put the brakes on unsealing video recordings of last year's trial on the constitutionality of California'...

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California's Gay Marriage Ban Faces Next Legal Hurdle

AP/The Huffington Post | By LISA LEFF | Posted 11.06.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California's highest court seems inclined to side with backers of the state's same-sex marriage ban in thinking that the state C...

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California Supreme Court Agrees To Rule On Gay Marriage Ban Defense

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — California's highest court decided Wednesday to wade back into the legal morass surrounding the state's voter-approved gay marri...

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Same-Sex Marriage Case Will Be Broadcast On C-Span

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — An upcoming appeals court hearing on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban will be televised. The 9th U.S. ...

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Marriage Equality: Which Video Defines It Best? (SLIDESHOW)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Courage Campaign, a California-based progressive organizing network, is advancing efforts to achieve marriage equality in the Golden State and acr...

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Same-Sex Marriage: In the Beginning, There Was the Word

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Rick Horowitz

The way he looked at it, he and his fellow heterosexuals had some serious work ahead of them cleaning up their own acts before they could think about casting that first stone at anyone else.

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Queeries: "Prop 8 and My Marriage"

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.17.2011

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Steven Petrow

While Judge Walker's ruling against Prop 8 is great news for the gay rights movement, it really shouldn't take a judge's word for a family to treat a gay marriage like any other.

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California Protest Seeks Social Security Benefits For Gays

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Protesters chanting slogans and carrying signs marched in Hollywood Sunday to demand equal Social Security benefits for same-sex c...

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California Gay Marriage Support Hits 50 Percent

Sacramento Bee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Support for same-sex marriage appears to be increasing in California and has hit 50 percent for the first time in polling by the Public Policy Institu...

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Proposition 8: Pastors Say Prop. 8 Could Lead To Polygamy, Bestiality

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — Gay people in California enjoy substantial political power as a result of nearly unanimous support from high-ranking elected off...

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Sam Stein

Gavin Newsom Calls Obama's Inaction On Gay Marriage 'Fundamentally Inexcusable'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom became the latest Democratic official to take a noticeably public swipe at President Barack Obama for inaction on gay...

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Proposition 8: Historian Testifies Marriage About More Than Procreation

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — A Yale professor testifying in a case challenging California's same-sex marriage ban said Tuesday that the 2008 campaign to pass...

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Marriage Equality Struck Down in California -- One Year Later

Rev. Eric Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rev. Eric Lee

The only way to re-frame the issue of marriage equality amongst those who voted against It, is to engage voters at their point of reference...religion.

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Obama Won't Push Equal Rights Law in the Right Direction

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

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Emma Ruby-Sachs

While the Obama administration pretends that the law is a concrete inflexible animal incapable of multiple interpretations, LGBT rights in this country continue to languish. Strong leadership is needed.

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Do We Want to Be Right, or Have Rights?

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Olmsted

What makes civil unions at present unequal is not their separateness but the host of federal benefits conferred by marriage that even the best state domestic partnerships can't accord.

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Same Sex Marriage in CA: 8 Reasons Why We Should Lay Off the Debate over 2010 v. 2012

Isobel White | Posted 05.25.2011

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Isobel White

We and the other side can keep going back and forth, spending millions upon millions. Or we can actually create enough of a cultural shift that being anti-same sex marriage is no longer widely acceptable

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A Citizen of the Third Class

Sam Ciraulo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sam Ciraulo

A right is either inalienable or it is not; a right is either "basic," "substantive," "fundamental" and "integral" or it is not. It cannot be both.

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'Vote No on Everything' Urges Changes to California Proposition System

Brian Normoyle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brian Normoyle

The voters of California sent another message that they want their leaders and legislators to do their jobs. The problem is the very system used to send this message is at least partially to blame for the state's problems.

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