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With the narrow passage of Proposition 8 on the California ballot, instant mass protests sprang up all across the state in the days after the election. Here in Southern California, thousands protested into the night a day later in West Hollywood, blocking streets and confronting the Mormon Church. More than 20,000 people showed up in Silver Lake and Hollywood on Saturday at a demonstration organized by the ANSWER Coalition and the LA Coalition for Equal Marriage Rights. Protests even spread to cities around the country, as part of a national day of protest against Prop 8. There is even some talk of boycotting businesses of people who donated money to pass the measure, and Mormon churches across the state are now considered targets because of their support for the measure. State and city officials are also doing their part: Forty-three members of the California Senate and Assembly filed a brief urging the state Supreme Court to void the proposition. Even Governor Schwarzenegger expressed hope that the Supreme Court could overturn it. Here in Los Angeles, two County supervisors, Yaroslavsky and Molina plan to try today to get the five-member Board of Supervisors to challenge the legality of Prop 8. There exists a lot of debate about why the measure passed. Some of the points of discussion include the fact that 73% of African Americans and 53% of Latinos supported the measure; that the No on 8 Campaign was not effective enough; and that opponents of Prop 8 did not donate enough money to the campaign in time to reverse the numbers. <\/p>\n
GUESTS: Reverend Neil Thomas, Metropolitan Community Church of Los Angeles, Sikivu Hutchinson, editor of BlackFemLens.org, Carlos Alvarez, organizer with the ANSWER coalition and the LA Coalition for Equal Marriage Rights<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program With the narrow passage of Proposition 8 on the California ballot, instant mass protests sprang up all across the state in the days after the election. Here in Southern California, thousands protested into the night a day later in West Hollywood, blocking streets and confronting the Mormon Church. More than 20,000 […]<\/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-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","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=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}