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Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment intended to ban same-sex marriage; it passed in the November 2008 California state elections and was later overturned in court.
Proposition 8 added "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California" to the California Constitution. [4] Proposition 8 was the most expensive proposition in United States history and sharply divided social conservatives and social liberals, as part of the ongoing American culture wars. The ballot initiative was ...
Protests against Proposition 8 supporters; S. Strauss v. Horton This page was last ...
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Californians also voted on Tuesday to approve Proposition 3, shedding the last vestiges of Proposition 8, the 2008 voter-approved measure that banned same-sex marriage and was later declared ...
On May 15, 2008, in a statement in response to the ruling of the California Supreme Court, Obama announced his opposition to Proposition 8, an initiative measure proposed for the 2008 California General Election ballot that would amend the California Constitution to define the word "marriage" as the union of a man and a woman. [43]
Perhaps the most high-profile was ballot item was the measure investing billions in driving down school property taxes through rate cuts and an increased homestead exemption, from $40,000 to $100,000.
A religious exemption is a legal privilege that exempts members of a certain religion from a law, regulation, or requirement. Religious exemptions are often justified as a protection of religious freedom, and proponents of religious exemptions argue that complying with a law against one's faith is a greater harm than complying against a law that one otherwise disagrees with due to a fear of ...