All posts tagged "proposition 8"
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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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HRC Under Fire
When it comes to laying blame for a lack of progress on LGBT equality, activists aren't just focusing on President Barack Obama and Congress....
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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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No More Delays
Back in the mid-1980s, with the Cold War still peaking and the idea of the fall of the Soviet Union no more than a utopian...
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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...
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Following the Facts
SAN FRANCISCO -- Testimony in the Proposition 8 trial Tuesday began with emotional testimony by San Diego's Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders and ended with a...
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In Harm's Way
SAN FRANCISCO – It's not often one hears these words in a federal courtroom: ''Dyke. You fucking dyke. You're going to die and go to...
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Money Changes Everything?
SAN FRANCISCO – The discussion at the Proposition 8 trial Thursday swung from the economics to mental health. In between, it covered everything from how...
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Lights, Camera, Inaction
We are a nation that likes to watch, be it hundreds of cable channels filled with talking heads, YouTube videos of cute kids and keyboard...
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'Will & Grace' Shall Set You Free
SAN FRANCISCO – Attorneys defending Proposition 8 in a federal district court tipped their hand Wednesday on how they will try to show that allowing...
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Not Ready for a Close-Up
The U.S. Supreme Court put an end late this afternoon to any question over whether the Proposition 8 federal court trial – already three days...
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Meet the New Bias, Same as the Old Bias
SAN FRANCISCO – Attorneys challenging the California ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage painted the ''Yes on 8'' campaign today as a modern day copycat...
