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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.
With over 13 million votes cast, California voters approve Proposition 8 on November 4, 2008, amending the state’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
In 2009, the California Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 8 "carved out a limited [or 'narrow'] exception to the state equal protection clause" and prohibited same-sex marriage under the California Constitution.
California's same-sex marriage ban remains in its Constitution despite rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court. Repeal it by voting for Proposition 3 on Nov. 5.
Proposition 8 – eliminating a right to marriage that had been granted to gay and lesbian couples by the California Supreme Court less than six months earlier –passed with 52% of the vote.
The ballot initiative, Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment titled Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry Act, [8] appeared on the California general election ballot on November 4, 2008 and passed with a 52% majority.
California voters will decide on a constitutional amendment that would repeal Proposition 8, and add language in the California Constitution stating that “the right to marry is a fundamental right,” on Nov. 5, 2024.
Here in California in 1978, it was the misguided rationale behind the so-called Briggs Initiative, which sought to prevent openly gay and lesbian people from teaching in K-12 schools. Voters soundly defeated it. But that was not the case 15 years ago, on Nov. 4, 2008 — when Proposition 8 passed.
The California Senate passed a proposed constitutional amendment on Thursday that would repeal Proposition 8 – which voters approved in 2008 to ban the state from recognizing same-sex...
Shay Franco-Clausen, political director with Equality California, is working to help pass Prop 3, which would repeal Prop 8 from the state constitution and declare marriage a fundamental right.