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Both sides in Prop. 8 battle look ahead to 2010
By Jessica Garrison
Los Angeles Times
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008
In normal political campaigns, election day -- win or lose -- signals the
end.
Not so with Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment defining marriage as only between a man and a woman that was approved by 52 percent of California voters Nov. 4.
Instead of settling the question of gay marriage in California, the election merely ushered in a new, and in many cases more heated, phase of the campaign, with both sides looking ahead to 2010, when the matter could be back on the ballot.
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Not so with Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment defining marriage as only between a man and a woman that was approved by 52 percent of California voters Nov. 4.
Instead of settling the question of gay marriage in California, the election merely ushered in a new, and in many cases more heated, phase of the campaign, with both sides looking ahead to 2010, when the matter could be back on the ballot.
If California's supreme court justices uphold the proposition, gay marriage backers plan to put their own
measure before voters perhaps as soon as 2010 to re-amend the state constitution
to allow the marriages.
If the justices toss out Proposition 8, some gay-marriage
opponents have talked of putting something on the ballot themselves, either to
again ban gay marriage or to oust Supreme Court justices or both.
See the rest of this story at LATimes.com
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