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Photos from the Nation wide protests today.

See an update on protests to California's prop 8 Nationwide today. (CLICK)

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Schwarzenegger Says Prop. 8 May Be Undone

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Sunday, 09 November 2008

Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Sunday, "we will ... maybe undo" Proposition 8 — the measure apparently passed by voters Tuesday stripping same-sex couples of the right to marry. The proposition would amend the state constitution to say that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." A July decision by the state Supreme Court said that laws prohibiting same-sex marriage violated the state constitution. In an interview Sunday on CNN, Schwarzenegger said the state Supreme Court might overturn Proposition 8 and that it is unlikely the proposition will have any effect on the estimated 18,000 same-sex marriages already recorded in California. Schwarzenegger told CNN that the passage of the proposition is "unfortunate, obviously, but it's not the end, because I think this will go back into the courts. It will go back into the state supreme court ... The supreme court in California has very clearly declared this as unconstitutional. It's the same as in the 1948 case when blacks and whites were not allowed to marry. This falls into the same category." "I think that we will again maybe undo that, if the court is willing to do that, and then move forward from there and again lead in that area," he said. He also told backers of same-sex marriage they "should never give up." "They should be on it and on it until they get it done," he said. According to the Los Angeles Times, the comments seem to represent a change in the governor's thinking. In the past he has said he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman, but he has also said the matter should be decided by voters or the courts and he opposed Proposition 8.

No we didn't

Gay Leaders in Utah Plan 5-Bill Attack in Legislature

By KIRK JOHNSON

Published: November 10, 2008, New York Times

SALT LAKE CITY — Leaders of Utah’s largest group supporting equal rights for gay people announced a proposal on Monday to increase the rights of same-sex couples in the state, saying they saw a silver lining in the passage last week of a same-sex marriage ban in California.

The measure in California stripped away the legality of thousands of same-sex marriages and incited protest rallies and marches against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the ban’s major supporters.

But leaders of the rights group here, Equality Utah, said statements made by Mormon leaders in defense of their actions in California — that the church was not antigay and had no problem with legal protections for gay men and lesbians already on the books in California — were going to be taken as an endorsement to expand legal rights that gay and lesbian couples have never remotely had in Utah, where the church is based.

“We are taking the L.D.S. Church at its word,” said Stephanie Pappas, Equality Utah’s chairwoman.

Whether the proposal — a five-part legislative agenda to be sponsored by gay and lesbian members of the State Legislature — will end up being no more than a cleverly barbed piece of political theater or the opening of a genuine dialogue remained uncertain.

A spokeswoman for the Mormon Church, Kim Farah, declined to comment.

State Senator Scott McCoy, an openly gay Democrat who said he would sponsor the legislation with two openly lesbian members of the House of Representatives, said part of the goal was to find a positive outlet for the tensions that arose here as the fight raged over the California measure.

“We need to come back down and we need to think, ‘O.K., now that we are where we are, what is the way we move forward?’ ” Mr. McCoy said at a news conference here. “And the way that we move forward is to channel that energy and that anger and that disappointment into constructive channels.”

Mr. McCoy said that five bills would be drafted in time for the opening of the Legislature in January, all narrowly tailored to what church leaders had said they could live with in California.

No attempt will be made, he and other Equality Utah members said, to overturn Utah’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, passed in 2004. The group will propose, however, striking out language in the amendment that prohibits legal protections for domestic unions.

The proposed laws would also expand protections for same-sex couples in health care and hospitalization decisions, housing and employment and in inheritance issues in probate court.

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Calif. governor says he's allowed 'back into the bedroom'

From CNN Political Producer Kristi Keck

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says his wife has been 'gloating' about Barack Obama's win.

(CNN) — Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said that even though his party didn’t win the presidential election, he has at least one thing to be happy about.

“I can get back into the bedroom, so there's the big advantage,” the California governor said Sunday on CNN’s “Late Edition.”

Schwarzenegger, a leading Republican, is married to Maria Shriver, a member of the very Democratic Kennedy clan.

Shriver endorsed Barack Obama in February, just days after her husband announced his support of John McCain.

Schwarzenegger said his wife has been “gloating now for these last few days” and running around the house with a life-size cutout of Obama saying, “We won.”

Striking a more serious tone, Schwarzenegger said he doesn’t see how any incumbent party could have held onto power this year, given the economic situation and the housing crisis.

“I think no one knew that it's going to be that bad. I think the Republicans were trying to hold on to, you know, if it would have been just the housing crisis or the mortgage crisis. But then when the stock market crash came, I think it was just too much,” he said.

Looking to the future, Schwarzenegger said that Democrats and Republicans should come together and avoid getting stuck in ideology.

“Democrats and Republicans should do everything they can to help [Obama] and his administration to be successful, because when he is successful … then the nation is successful. And then the world is successful. So, we've all got to work together on this,” he said.

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