California Aims to Add Same-Sex Marriage Rights to State Constitution
Fifteen years after California voted to ban gay marriage in the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom is backing a proposal to officially rescind the law and enshrine same-sex marriage as a right in the state constitution.
Proposition 8, approved by more than 52 percent of California voters in 2008, proclaimed “only marriage between a man and a woman” was valid or recognized in the state. Prop. 8 was struck down in 2010 in federal district court and in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013.
On Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, Assemblymember Evan Low (D-Campbell) proposed the constitutional amendment to rescind Prop. 8 and strike language from the constitution limiting marriage between a man and a woman….