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Those are some of the local voices protesting the passage of Proposition 8 one year ago today. Prop 8 amended Article 1 of the California Constitution which reads \u201cOnly marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.\u201d The measure overturned the California Supreme Court\u2019s historic ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. In the days following last November\u2019s vote, mass, and often spontaneous protests broke out all over the country but especially in the California cities of Westwood, Hollywood, and San Francisco. Since prop 8\u2019s passage, legislatures in Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire, passed laws legalizing same-sex marriage. Yesterday, Maine voters narrowly repealed their state’s same-sex marriage law. Here in California a debate raged over the summer among activist groups about the best ways to overturn Proposition 8. Equality California, an established organization which has played a central role in the state\u2019s LGBT politics, favors a strategy of waiting until the 2012 ballot to repeal the ban. The logic is that presidential elections bring greater political momentum to the voting booths. But, a newer group called Equality Network, favors putting \u201cMarriage Equality\u201d on the ballot next year. Equality Network has also called for a rally tonight at 7 pm on the corner of Vermont and Santa Monica to commemorate last year\u2019s loss. <\/p>\n
GUEST: David Comfort, co-founder of Los Angeles\u2019 Equality Network<\/em> <\/p>\n For more information, visit www.equalitynetwork.org<\/a>, or email david@equalitynetwork.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program Those are some of the local voices protesting the passage of Proposition 8 one year ago today. Prop 8 amended Article 1 of the California Constitution which reads \u201cOnly marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.\u201d The measure overturned the California Supreme Court\u2019s historic ruling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}