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The Los Angeles Times said the film is "An outstanding and urgent example of the investigative documentary" that "is all the scarier for its straightforward presentation of how the LDS Church succeeded in getting California's Proposition 8 on the ballot in 2008 and then getting it passed. As an exposé, there could hardly be a stronger case for ...
News reports and commentators have cited the state's various legislative supermajority requirements as a contributing factor to the state budget crisis. [23] [24] The state has a long history of supermajority requirements with a 1933 state ballot measure mandating a two-thirds supermajority to pass the state budget and California Proposition 13 (1978) mandating another two-thirds supermajority ...
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 ...
It passed in the November 2008 California state elections and was later overturned by the courts. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance [3] of the California Supreme Court's May 2008 appeal ruling, In re Marriage Cases, which found the ban in 2000 on same-sex marriage (Proposition 22) unconstitutional ...
California lawmakers approved a budget on Wednesday that slashes spending and temporarily raises taxes on some businesses to close an estimated $46.8 billion budget deficit. It's the second year ...
Pages in category "2008 California Proposition 8" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Social safety net programs emerged as one of the big winners of a budget deal hammered out between Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers with both sides compromising on some fronts to get to the nearly ...
Similarly, an analysis by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry found that, after Indiana passed a religious freedom law in 2015, people in Indiana who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or who question their sexual orientation self-reported worse physical and mental health.