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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.
The California Supreme Court heard several challenges to Proposition 8 in March 2009, [13] but ultimately upheld the amendment, though the over 18,000 same-sex marriages that were performed before the amendment was passed remained valid. In the wake of Proposition 8's passage, California continued to allow domestic partnerships.
Proposition 85 (2006) Defeated: Second attempt at Proposition 73. Proposition 8 (2008) Passed, then declared unconstitutional: A state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in order to override the In re Marriage Cases (Proposition 22) decision earlier that year that legalized same-sex marriage. Proposition 14 (2010) Passed
In 2008, my Laguna Beach street was lined with signs for Proposition 8, a gay marriage ban. This year's Proposition 3 is to undo the unenforced measure. ... was sure to pass. This time, it was ...
Proposition 8 (or The Victims' Bill of Rights [1] [2]), a law enacted by California voters on 8 June 1982 by the initiative process, restricted the rights of convicts ...
Californians also voted on Tuesday to approve Proposition 3, shedding the last vestiges of Proposition 8, ... passed by voters in 2016, has been spent, and school districts report aging buildings ...
On November 4, 2008, the Supreme Court ruling was struck down by when Proposition 8 passed in California, resulting in nationwide protests and judicial cases. Proposition 8 added the void text of Proposition 22 that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California" into the California Constitution. On November 5 ...
The measure that passed in Anchorage was rejected three years prior, in 2015, the same year Houston voters rejected a similar effort. ... California’s Proposition 8 banned gay marriage in the ...