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Federal Judge Lifts Stay In Prop 8 Ruling

August 12, 2010 3

This morning, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker issued another ruling in related to his landmark decision that declared Proposition 8 (California’s Constitutional Amendment banning same-gender marriages) unconstitutional. Last Friday, both sides in the case submitted arguments to Judge Walker about whether he should continue to retain the stay on his order until any pending appeal is decided, or lift the stay he placed shortly after issuing his decision last week.

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Celebrating a landmark civil rights victory in the land of Nixon and Reagan

August 5, 2010 13

The Orange County Rally in Sasscer Park in the shadow of the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse drew a respectable crowd, about 200 people, of LGBT community members and their supporters. They all seemed to recognize that this decision is merely another step, on the long road, to marriage equality for LGBT Americans.

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Judge Rules that Prop 8 is Unconstitutional

August 4, 2010 3

U. S. District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker has issued a landmark decision declaring that Proposition 8, banning same-gender marriage is unconstitutional.

“The United States Constitution guarantees that all persons shall be treated equally under the law;” said Chris Prevatt, spokesman for the Harvey Milk Stonewall Democratic Club of Orange County. “The U.S. Supreme Court rulled decades ago, that marriage is a fundamental right, when it overturned state laws banning inter-racial marriages.”

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Equality California Hails Historic Court Decision Striking Down Portion of DOMA

July 8, 2010 2

Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors issued the following statement hailing today’s historic ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro striking down Section 3 of the discriminatory federal policy known as the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Under the ruling, the plaintiffs are entitled to the same federal spousal benefits and protections as every other married couple.

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Ballot Measure to Repeal Prop 8 Fails to Get Enough Signatures

April 12, 2010 0

The effort to place an initiative on the November 2010 ballot to repeal Proposition 8 and restore equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, announced today that the proponents did not gather the 694,354 signatures necessary to place the proposed initiative on the ballot.  The group vowed to work toward the repeal of Prop 8 at the next general election in November 2012.

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Help Ensure Prop 8 Trial is Televised

January 6, 2010 8

UPDATE 1.6.10: Per the San Jose Mercury News, “Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker approved court-operated cameras in his courtroom for delayed release on YouTube, […]

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Wonder if the Yes on 8 Folks would endorse this marriage?

December 4, 2009 0

I can hear them now; it’s a marriage between a man and a woman so it must be OK. But according to this story, a man in Japan has married a female video game avatar.

The bride didn’t wear white; she arrived in a red plastic game case. God save their virtual half breed children Pixel and Byte