Prop 8 gay marriage
Proposition 8
California has always been thought of as a steady state. In general, the west coast is seen as more liberal than the southeastern seaboard. However, events arose surrounding gay rights in 2008 in California that threw its stance as a bastion of liberal progressivism into question. Proposition 8, known colloquially as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the 2008 California articulate election. The proposition was created by opponents of lgbtq+ marriage before the California Supreme Court issued its judgment on In re Marriage Cases. This decision found the 2000 ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 22, unconstitutional. In the long jog, Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional by a federal district court in 2010, although that choice did not leave into effect until 2013, following the conclusion of Prop 8 advocates' appeals, which went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Prop 8 negated the In re Marriages Cases decision by adding the same provision as Proposition 22 to the California Constitution, providing that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." As an
California Will Continue to Honor Marriages of Same-Sex Couples Who Married Before the Possible Passage of Prop 8
Initiative Would Only Implement to Future Marriages
(San Francisco, CA, November 5, 2008)—The California Attorney General, Equality California, and the nation’s leading LGBTQ legal groups agree that the marriages of the estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who married between June 16, 2008 and the possible alley of Proposition 8 are still valid in the state of California and must continue to be honored by the state.
As Attorney General Jerry Brown has stated in previous court papers and as he reaffirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle, those marriages should remain valid notwithstanding Proposition 8’s possible passage. On August 5, 2008, Brown told the Chronicle, “I believe that marriages that have been entered into subsequent to the May 15 Supreme Court opinion will be recognized by the California Supreme Court,’ He noted that Proposition is silent about retroactivity, and said, ‘I would reflect the court, in looking at the underlying equities, would most probably conclude that upholding the marriages performed in that interval before the election would be a just result
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Abstract
Proposition 8 was a California ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in November of 2008. The issue of same-sex marriage is usually framed in the media as a political and cultural battle where the two opposite sides argue about the legal and cultural repercussions of the recognition of same-sex unions for queer relationships and society. Rather than focusing on the legal implications of the Proposition 8 campaign and its outcome, this document addresses the campaign's effects in the LGBT Rights Movement in Orange County. During the campaign many LGBTs became politically active for the first day in their lives, but it was after the passage of Proposition 8 when several LGBT rights organizations were founded and there were a greater number of people who became politically involved. I hypothesize that the Proposition 8 campaign was a socializing process that raised the LGBT community's insight of social stigma towards the LGBT identity. Political action was a coping mechanism for many LGBTs who saw their efforts as means to superior their social status. As a result, the campaign shaped the identity and
In summary
California voters passed Proposition 3, which enshrines the right to marry into the state’s constitution. While same-sex marriage is already legal, Prop. 3 ensures that LGBTQ+ couples can continue to marry even if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns landmark cases.
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California voters passed Proposition 3 on Tuesday, amending the state’s constitution to affirm the right to queer marriage.
Same-sex marriage is already legal in California, so the amendment won’t transform anything, at least in the foreseeable future. Rather, the constitutional change removes a previous provision that barred lgbtq+ marriage and adds new protections in the event the U.S. Supreme Court overturns existing precedent.
“We’ve always known that at some show we need to get this discriminatory provision out of the California constitution,” said Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat and a co-author of Prop. 3. But he said it wasn’t urgent until the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that provided the right to an abortion, that “we saw that marriage equality was at risk.”
Supporters have poured nearly $4 million into the campai