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Source: New York Times , Salt Lake Tribune CA Prop. 8 Despite consistent expressions of confidence from their spokespersons throughout the campaign, Protect Marriage, the main group that promoted Proposition 8 in California, was convinced that they were losing just weeks before the Nov. 4 vote, New York...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Salon , McClatchy Newspapers via Detroit Free Press , Los Angeles Times One of the closing ads run by the No-on-8 campaign in California featured Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Popular though she is, the chief strategist for Prop. 8 said it was odd that Proposition...

Source: KTLA TV , KUTV , LA Weekly , Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle LOS ANGELES -- In a second day of protests at the Mormon temple in Los Angeles, 2,000 supporters of same-sex marriage rallied outside the temple in Westwood today. Qnews update: Ex-Mormon hopes at least 1000 will join him...

Source: New York Times , Los Angeles Times , Contra Costa Times , AFP CA Prop. 8 A giant rainbow-colored flag in the gay-friendly Castro neighborhood of San Francisco was flying at half-staff on Wednesday as social and religious conservatives celebrated the passage of measures that ban same-sex marriage...

Source: Salt Lake Tribune Now that California and Arizona voters have followed the advice of LDS church leaders by adopting constitutional amendments mandating discrimination against gay and lesbian couples, an LDS Church leader called Wednesday for members of their church to heal any rifts caused by...

Source: San Jose Mercury News , AFP , Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News CA Prop. 8 In what was called a "stunning" and "stinging" defeat, voters in California decided Tuesday to insert into the state constitution an amendment that requires discrimination against lesbian and...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Los Angeles Times CA Prop. 8 On a day that saw the greatest breakthrough ever in the long and sorry history of racial discrimination in America, a day when American voters overwhelmingly elected the country's first African American president, voters in four states...

Source: Los Angeles Times , LA Times Top of the Ticket , San Francisco Chronicle California voters stood in line Tuesday — and they were proud of it. Millions of people streamed to the polls to help elect the nation's first black president or its first woman vice president, and to vote on a...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle , San Diego Union Tribune , KPMH TV , Reuters , Financial Times CA Prop. 8 Gay couples are not hiding any more and that has made all the difference, health care administrator Linda Merkens told Reuters before Tuesday's vote in California that aims to strip the right...

Source: Salt Lake Tribune , KUTV Salt Lake City -- Forget Joe the Plumber. Never mind Joe 6-pack. This election, says one Provo mom of two gay children, has spawned yet another political icon: "Mother bears who defend their cubs." A trio of Mormon mothers told an unexpectedly large crowd in...