Obama's Problem With Proposition 8

[Natasha]

Obama's Problem With Proposition 8

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7/7/2008

"In a letter read at last Tuesday's annual luncheon of San Francisco's Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club, Obama stealthily announced his opposition to California's Proposition 8, a November ballot initiative that insists that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

Prop 8 was spawned in May after the California Supreme Court by a 4-to-3 vote struck down state laws against same-sex marriage and said domestic partnerships that provide many of the rights and benefits of matrimony are not enough.

Citing a 1948 California Supreme Court decision that overturned a ban on interracial marriages, the court struck down the state's 1977 one-man, one-woman marriage law as well as a similar law, passed by referendum in 2000 with a 61% majority/"