The effort to take the marriage equality battle back to the California ballot in 2010 experienced a major setback Monday when the Courage Campaign announced it was calling for more research and time to change hearts and minds before returning to the ballot to restore marriage for gay and lesbian couples in California. Courage Campaign...
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A new LATimes/USC poll was released Friday regarding voter attitudes about Gay Marriage. A year after Proposition 8 removed the rights of same-gender couples to get married it seems that little has changed.
According to the poll, a narrow 51% majority support marriage equalitywith 43% opposed. In addition, the LATimes reports that despite the majority support for marriage equality, a significant...
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We received the following release from the folks behind the ballot initiative effort to Repeal Prop 8 ballot in 2010:
Million for a Million” will fund signature gathering to put a marriage equality initiative on the California ballot next November
San Francisco, CA, November 4, 2009 – At rallies today in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego...
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This morning Executive Director Geoff Kors, on behalf of Equality California Equality California (EQCA), announced his organization’s support for a ballot measure to repeal Prop 8 in 2012 during a conference for bloggers and media.
Mr. Kors said that during the last 100 days EQCA had done a great deal of research in several...
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NOTE: Rick Jacobs, Chair of Courage Campaign, along with the Courage Campaign staff released the following letter to the ”friends, allies, and partners dedicated to repealing Proposition 8:
2010: It’s time to make a decision
I write to you today with urgency and seriousness. After months of discussion and debate, the time has come to make the tough...
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About 200+ marriage equality activists gathered in San Bernardino on Saturday for what was billed as a “LGBT Leadership Summit” to discuss how and when to repeal Proposition 8 which was passed by voters in 2008 removing the right to marry from same gender couples in California.
While there were a significant portion of those...
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The San Francisco Chronicle reports on their Politics Blog that Another prominent LGBT group wants to wait on gay marriage vote until 2012.
The Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club — the nation’s oldest LGBT Demo club — thinks 2012 would be better, too. After hearing a presentation from San Francisco pollster Amy Simon this...
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