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Wednesday, August 27
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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Bay Area Reporter CA Prop. 8 SACRAMENTO -- The November ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage would be soundly defeated if the election were held today, according to a statewide poll released Wednesday. The Public Policy Institute of California survey found that Proposition 8 is favored by only 40 percent of likely voters and opposed by 54 percent. Just 6 percent of the 2,001 Californians polled said they hadn't taken a position on the measure. "There doesn't seem to be a lot of room for discussion or debate," said Mark Baldassare, PPIC president...
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Monday, August 25
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Source: MediaNews Group via Daily Democrat , Associated Press CA Prop. 8 California's growing bloc of Latino voters represent a significant possible source of votes in favor of Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that seeks to strip the right to marry from gay and lesbian couples, MediaNews reports. As a rapidly growing political bloc that could represent nearly one in five voters in November, Latinos offer a major opportunity for the campaign working to pass Proposition 8, MediaNews reporter Mike Swift writes. A Field Poll conducted in July found that Latinos, with their social conservatism...
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Friday, August 22
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Source: Ventura County Star , Bay Area Reporter , KFSN CA Prop. 8 The campaign for and against Proposition 8 -- a measure that aims to constitutionally ban gay and lesbian couples from marrying in California -- is just beginning to segue from quiet, behind-the-scenes fundraising to the turn-up-the-volume work of swaying voters. The shift was evident last night in the Central Valley city of Fresno where a crowd of several hundred Prop. 8 supporters cheered speakers who railed against the California Supreme Court and government officials. A Fresno pastor asserted at the meeting that support...
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Wednesday, August 20
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Source: Los Angeles Times , Knights of Columbus press release , Bay Area Reporter , The Tidings CA Prop. 8 Opponents of marriage equality have raised slightly more cash in support of Proposition 8, California's anti-equality marriage initiative, than gay marriage supporters, who have vowed to defeat the Nov. 4 ballot measure. The figures come from a database of donations maintained by Los Angeles Times . A contribution by the Connecticut-based Knights of Columbus of $1.25 million on Aug. 14 put Proposition 8 supporters within striking distance of opponents. Yesterday, another infusion of cash...
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Sunday, August 17
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Source: Sydney Morning Herald , People A wedding kiss for de Rossi and DeGeneres photo: Reuters via Sydney Morning Herald It was a case of here come the brides for Ellen DeGeneres and Australian love, Portia de Rossi, the former "Ally McBeal" actress. The Hollywood couple married at an intimate ceremony today inside the grounds of their $US29 million Beverly Hills estate. DeGeneres, one of America's top TV talkshow hosts, and Australian-born actress de Rossi, both wore designs by Zac Posen as they exchanged written wedding vows, Sydney Morning Herald reports. De Rossi's...
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Saturday, August 16
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Source: Los Angeles Times , Huffington Post CA Prop. 8 In a 60-second commercial, being aired widely on California cable channels, a young bride, looking lovely in her wedding dress, tries to walk down the aisle to her groom, but is blocked again and again by obstacles in her way. The sepia-tone ad concludes with the question, "What if you couldn't marry the person you love?" and directs viewer to the Let California Ring website. The ad might look like an early salvo in the campaign to defeat Proposition 8, the November ballot initiative that would prevent gays and lesbians from marrying...
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Monday, August 11
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Source: Gay & Lesbian Times , Christian Broadcasting Network , San Diego Union Tribune , San Jose Mercury News SAN DIEGO -- San Diego is earning a reputation as the ground zero of the right-wing movement to overturn marriage equality, a report by Christian Broadcasting Network asserts. San Diego churches started the petition drive last fall to put a marriage amendment also known as Proposition 8, on the ballot. And those churches are now organizing a get-out-the-vote drive for November's election, CBN reports. Although the petition drive for the ballot measure started before...
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Monday, August 11
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Source: McClatchey via Houston Chronicle , McClatchey via Sacramento Bee , Fresno Bee Boston -- Nearly five years after the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, the battle against marriage equality that brought international attention and apocalyptic fears to Massachusetts is all but dead, McClatchey/Tribune news service reports. While same-sex marriage is firmly entrenched in Massachusetts, gay activists in the Bay State say the future of the movement nationally could depend on what happens in California. In May, the California Supreme Court made...
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Sunday, August 10
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Source: Sacramento Bee , San Francisco Chronicle A ballot label that says Proposition 8 "eliminates (the) right of same-sex couples to marry" will remain intact after a Sacramento County judge today dismissed a challenge by supporters of the measure. The language will accompany the measure banning gay and lesbian marriages in California on every ballot and in every voter pamphlet, unless an appeals court intervenes before the close of business Monday, the deadline for sending election material to the state printer. Religious conservatives who sponsored Prop. 8 objected vehemently...
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Tuesday, August 05
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , Sacramento Bee California's Attorney General, Jerry Brown, said Monday that he does not believe that Prop. 8 -- the state's marriage limitation amendment -- would invalidate existing marriages if passed. The ballot measure aims to amend the state's constitution to declare "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized." If the ballot measure passes in November, Brown would be obligated to defend it against what is sure to be a flurry of legal challenges, but he told the San Francisco Chronicle that...
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Tuesday, July 29
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Source: Sacramento Bee , Los Angeles Times , McClatchy Newspapers via Olympian The influential ballot summary of the initiative to ban marriage equality in California has been rewritten, and opponents of Proposition 8 are calling the new version "good news." Supporters of Proposition 8 said they would file suit to block the change made by California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown to the language of the measure's ballot title and summary. On the petitions that signature gatherers circulated last year to qualify the measure for the Nov. 4 ballot, it was described as a "Limit on Marriage...
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Sunday, July 27
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Source: LAist , Queerty , Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News , Bay Area Reporter Not even a widely supported goal like the maintenance of marriage equality in California can bring all LGBT activist groups or the politicians who support them together with the nation's largest and richest advocacy group, Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was scheduled to give the keynote speech at a major fundraising event for HRC last night in San Francisco. He was a no-show after a last-minute cancellation announced Saturday morning. HRC had promoted the event -- the...
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Wednesday, July 23
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Source: Orange County Register , Los Angeles Times Laguna Beach, long a gay-friendly community, followed Los Angeles' lead as one of the first cities to reject a ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriage. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa approved a similar measure earlier this month, LA Times reports. If passed in November, Proposition 8 would limit marriage to heterosexual couples, legally prohibiting same-sex marriage. "I never doubted for a minute – a second – that anyone on this council would not support this," Councilmember Elizabeth Pearson told Orange County Register...
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Saturday, July 19
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Source: San Diego Union Tribune , Los Angeles Times SAN DIEGO -- Before showing pride, the local gay community tried to exhibit a little muscle. Activists rallied at noon yesterday outside the Manchester Grand Hyatt, calling for a boycott of the downtown San Diego hotel. They are angry that owner Doug Manchester has contributed more than $100,000 toward a November ballot measure to make same-sex marriages illegal. Although they expressed outrage last week about the boycott and rally, opponents of gay marriage also immediately began using it in their fundraising appeals. On Tuesday, they sent a...
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Friday, July 18
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Source: Los Angeles Times , Dallas Morning News Scores of United Methodist Church ministers in California are putting their careers on the line in an open revolt against religious edicts that forbid them to conduct weddings for gay and lesbian couples, Los Angeles Times reports. The pastors could lose their jobs and clerical credentials in the church, the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination. Ministers in Santa Monica, Claremont, Walnut Creek and other cities have already performed ceremonies for gays and lesbians or are planning to do so. In addition, 82 retired pastors in Northern...
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Friday, July 18
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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Press Enterprise , Sacramento Bee In a finding that could foreshadow a difficult political battle for a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage, a new Field Poll says more California voters oppose Proposition 8 than favor it. By a 51% to 42% margin, voters appear ready to vote No on Proposition 8, the "Limit on marriage" constitutional amendment. The new poll, released today, is the first independent statewide measure of public opinion on the proposed constitutional ban since gay men and lesbians began marrying legally in California on June 16. It was...
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Monday, June 23
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Source: Salt Lake Tribune , Deseret News On the 39th anniversary of New York City's Stonewall Riots, which arguably launched the gay rights movement, their church is asking California Mormons to support a proposed constitutional amendment that would recognize only marriages between a man and a woman. The statement signed by from the top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) urges California church members to "do all you can" to support a constitutional amendment to recognize only marriages between a man and a woman. "Marriage between a man and a woman...
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Saturday, June 21
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Source: Marin Independent Journal , Associated Press , San Diego Union Tribune Sara Taylor and Sherrie Holmes lined up along with other eager couples at the Marin County clerk's office Tuesday and got their license after 18 years together, but they waited until yesterday to get married Marin County issued licenses to Taylor and Holmes and to 34 other same-sex couples Tuesday. County employees also performed 14 same-sex weddings. But the Taylor-Holmes wedding held outside a county courts building yesterday became significant among the hundreds celebrated in California last week because it was...
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Saturday, June 21
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , Los Angeles Times CA marriage case SAN FRANCISCO -- Equal rights organizations today asked the California Supreme Court to block a November ballot initiative that would restore the state's ban on gay marriage, arguing that it was not drafted properly. In court papers filed with the state's high court, equal rights lawyers insist that backers of the ballot measure did not follow proper procedures for amending the California constitution. The measure would amend the state Constitution to limit marriage to a union between a man and...
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Friday, June 20
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Source: San Diego Union Tribune , Los Angeles Times , North County Times At least 14 employees in the San Diego County Clerk's Office raised religious objections to performing gay wedding ceremonies but were told by their boss they couldn't pick and choose between marriage applicants, the San Diego Union Tribune reports. Under the California Public Records Act, The San Diego Union-Tribune obtained e-mails from the clerk's office in which employees were told they would have to perform the ceremonies without discrimination or seek a reassignment within the department or the county. "It...
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Wednesday, June 18
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Source: Contra Costa Times , San Francisco Chronicle MARTINEZ — Barbara Chambers has officiated more than 5,000 weddings as assistant clerk-recorder in Contra Costa County, but she broke out a highlighter Tuesday morning as a reminder of a significant change to the wording that she'd repeated so many times before, Contra Costa Times reports. As she read her boss' vows, the phrase "Spouses for life" jumped off the page covered in a bright yellow marker. "I didn't want to screw that one up," she said, laughing, moments before presiding over Contra Costa County's...
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Tuesday, June 17
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Source: Sacramento Bee , San Diego Union Tribune , Bakersfield Californian , Los Angeles Times Reports indicate only scattered protests in California today during the first full day when gay and lesbian couples could obtain marriage licenses from county clerks. In Sacramento, where anti-gay protests have sometimes become intense in the past several years, about two dozen protesters were massed across the street from Sacramento County Clerk's office on F Street, Sacramento Bee reports. They were separated by police stationed at every corner from about two dozen delighted celebrants with rainbow...
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Tuesday, June 17
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Source: Sacramento Bee , Stockton Record , San Diego Union Tribune , Oakland Tribune , Bakersfield Californian CA marriage case Cheers erupted from a crowd of about four dozen people outside the Sacramento County clerk's office each time the doors swung open this morning and another newly married couple emerged. At least 108 couples were expected to obtain marriage licenses at the office Tuesday, many of them same-sex couples, the Sacramento Bee reports. Kristin Maddox, 25, and her partner of nearly three years, Jennifer Terrazas, 24, both of Sacramento, were the first to apply for a marriage...
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Tuesday, June 17
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Los Angeles Times , AFP "I now pronounce you spouses for life," said the rabbi. With those words and the marriage license they'd obtained moments before at the Beverly Hills courthouse, longtime partners Diane Olson and Robin Tyler became the first and only same-sex couple to celebrate their official and legal union yesterday in Los Angeles county. Up north in San Francisco at about the same moment, cheers filled City Hall shortly after 5 pm as longtime lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, partners for more than 50 years, began their second...
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Monday, June 16
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Source: Sacramento Bee , Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News Opponents of marriage equality filed another legal attempt Monday to block future same-sex marriages in California, Sacramento Bee reports. A petition signed by what the Bee describes as "a handful of politicians from across the region" was filed with a Sacramento County judge. It questions the validity of new gender-neutral marriage licenses that clerks are now (as of 5 pm today) required to use for all marriages. Instead of "bride" and "groom," the new forms refer to "Party A" and "Party...
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Monday, June 16
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Source: seaQwa staff from multiple reports (see list below) CA marriage case When the first few marriages of lesbian and gay couples are celebrated in California today starting at just after 5 pm, the focus will turn, at least temporarily, from political, legal, business, and religious issues to simple stories of people. For most couples, of course, a paid wedding announcement in the local paper is the most publicity they want or that they can hope for, and it will soon enough be the same for gay and lesbian couples marrying in California. But for these first few days, at least, there is far more...
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Saturday, June 14
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Source: Washington Post , Christian Post , San Jose Mercury News CA marriage case Lesbian and gay couples will be able to get marriage licenses starting Tuesday from their local county clerk -- Monday evening in a few places -- but that doesn't mean they'll be able to formalize the union with a church wedding. Ministers at a few denominations, including some Unitarian churches, have eagerly embraced the new equality of the state's civil marriage laws. After the county clerk there halted all civil marriages in the county because of the Supreme Court decision mandating marriage equality...
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Friday, June 13
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Source: Los Angeles Times , Cybercast News Service via Crosswalk , Associated Press CA marriage case A conservative Christian legal group made a last ditch effort on Thursday to prevent the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Virginia-based Liberty Counsel asked a midlevel appeals court to temporarily prohibit county clerks from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples beginning next week. Liberty noted in a news release that the Court of Appeal will regain jurisdiction when the Supreme Court ruling takes effect at 5 pm on June 16. "The Supreme Court decision directs the...
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Thursday, June 12
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , KGET-TV , Bakersfield Californian , KERO-TV Bakersfield, Cal. -- Whitney Weddell, a leader in the gay community in Bakersfield, told the San Francisco Chronicle that she anticipates a peaceful day at the clerk's office Tuesday when the office will have to start issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. Because the clerk's office is refusing to conduct wedding ceremonies, couples plan to get married outside the office at ceremonies officiated by a local minister. "We are going to obey the law. I have no idea what the opposition will do,...
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Tuesday, June 10
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Source: Oroville Mercury-Register , Pam's House Blend OROVILLE -- Another county in California is getting out of the wedding-ceremony business, but -- unlike a similar decision in Kern County -- officials in Butte County insist that the change is only about dollars and cents, not about politics or values. Butte County Clerk Candace Grubbs told the Oroville Mercury-Register that her office will stop performing civil ceremonies, but will gladly refer couples to people private sector who that perform the ceremonies. "We decided to not do any marriage ceremonies because of budget constraints...
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