All posts tagged "california"
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Critical Court
California Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin asked the lead counsel seeking to overturn the state's 2008 initiative amending the state's constitution to ban same-sex couples...
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Defending DOMA, Fighting Back
Hamdi Lui and Michael Ernest Roberts, a same-sex couple married in Massachusetts but living in California, brought a case aimed at keeping Lui – a...
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Making Marriage Equal
Since November 2008, when the voters of California passed Proposition 8 and ended marriage equality in the state, much attention has been given to the...
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Prop. 8's Fall Fallout
On Friday, Aug. 20, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman (R) told the Sacramento Bee that she would defend Proposition 8 in court if elected governor...
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Nuptials Nixed
Despite hopes prompted by several LGBT organizations, news stories and various county clerks across the state of California, same-sex marriages did not begin in California...
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More Waiting
No same-sex couples are set to marry legally on this afternoon in California – but they could be legally wed by next week at this...
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Processing the Proposition's Process
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in Perry v. Schwarzenegger declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional, while celebrated by opponents of the ban on...
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Roy Ashburn apologizes to California’s gay community; calls on Republicans to value ”maximum freedom”
”To me, Republican principles hold that each individual is special and unique; each individual should have the maximum freedom and opportunity under our Constitution; that...
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News Analysis: Opening Arguments, at the Close
More than five months ago, the trial questioning the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 – prohibiting same-sex marriages in the state – began in U.S....
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San Diego Tragedy
Two gay men were found dead in a San Diego apartment on Friday, Feb. 5, in what San Diego police have labeled a murder-suicide. The...
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A Judicial Outing?
The judge hearing a trial over whether Proposition 8 in California is constitutional ''is himself gay,'' according to a column that ran in this past...
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Power Outage
SAN FRANCISCO – Defenders of Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative that amended California's constitution to ban same-sex marriage, began their effort Monday to defend the...
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Prop 8 Supporters to Make Their Case
SAN FRANCISCO – Today begins Day 10, Week 3 of the federal trial challenging the constitutionality of California's ban on same-sex marriages, Proposition 8. The...
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Everyone's a little gay, sometimes
SAN FRANCISCO – The legal team defending California's ban on same-sex marriages is in the very odd position of having to argue that most people...
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Fierce Words, Little Power
SAN FRANCISCO – President Barack Obama's name keeps coming up during the trial challenging the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban. Wednesday, attorneys defending Proposition...
