As we reported last week, Californians will get to vote in 2024 on whether to repeal Proposition 8, the state’s dormant ban on same-sex marriage, once and for all. A new poll shows the repeal is likely to pass in a landslide, and LGBTQ leaders hope it will, to send a message to the rest of the country.
15 years ago, Californians narrowly approved Proposition 8, amending the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. It was later found unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, legalizing gay marriage across the country. But that provision remains in the California Constitution, a kind of legal zombie line in the law, which means if this Supreme Court or a future one were to reverse its earlier ruling, same-sex marriage would again be outlawed in California. So the state legislature has put a measure on next year’s ballot, to repeal Prop 8 and remove it from the Constitution.
For more on this, KCBS poliwe are joined live today on the KCBS Ring Central Newsline by TONY HOANG, executive director of Equality California, the largest statewide LGBTQ rights organization in America.