Tag: Proposition 8
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Marriage Equality Returns to California
Today, in a historic victory for marriage equality, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Hollingsworth v. Perry that restores marriage equality to California.
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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down California’s Proposition 8
A divided federal appeals court today struck down California’s Proposition 8, which amended the state constitution to prohibit gay marriage. Proposition 8 was passed by voters in response to a California Supreme Court decision that ruled that forbidding same-sex marriage violated the state constitution.
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Federal Court: Prop 8 Trial Tapes Should Be Made Public
The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization – yesterday praised the ruling of Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that the videotapes of the trial in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now Perry v. Brown) should be made public.
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My gay son: the face of church’s lack of respect
I am a Catholic who voted against Proposition 8 in 2008 and contributed $1,000 to the No on 8 Campaign, a Catholic who is sustained by regular Mass, scripture and prayer. I am also the father of a gay son, from whom I was slow to learn how painful, debilitating and denigrating are the constant legal and social reminders that he and those like him are not fully accepted members of the human community.
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Hit Gay Film “Homewrecker” Stays Current With Repeal of Prop 8
The Producers of the Gay Indie Comedy “Homewrecker” Altered the Film to Show Support for Marriage Equality. Production Team Bruce and Paul Hart and Stars Dylan Vox and Rebekah Kochan Create “An Outrageous Gay Parody of Lifetime Original Movies.”
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8: The Mormon Proposition
A searing indictment of the Mormon Church’s historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California’s Proposition 8, and the Mormon religion’s secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights.