Measure Aims To Nix Gay Marriage Ban
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KCRA: A group pushed ahead Thursday with a campaign to repeal California's same-sex marriage ban, even though some other gay rights organizations think it's too soon for another expensive ballot fight.
Los Angeles-based Love Honor Cherish proposed ballot language to strike the ban approved by state voters in November as Proposition 8. The new ballot proposal says religious institutions would not be required to perform same-sex unions if it conflicts with their beliefs. "The refusal to perform a marriage under this provision shall not be the basis for lawsuit or liability, and shall not affect the tax-exempt status of any religious denomination, church or other religious institution," reads the exemption, an attempt by Love Honor Cherish to defuse one of the arguments Proposition 8 sponsors used to garner support last fall.
Submitting wording to the California attorney general is the first step in qualifying a measure for an election. Once the language is approved, backers would have until mid-April to gather the 695,000 signatures needed to put the initiative on the November 2010 ballot. "Our group has said since last November that we were going to go forward in November 2010, and we are living up to that promise," said John Henning, executive director of Love Honor Cherish, a volunteer-run group. Since Proposition 8 eliminated the right of gay couples to get married in California, gay marriage supporters have been divided over how and when to try to win it back.
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