Overturning Proposition 8: In 2010 or 2012?
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LA Daily: Proposition 8, last year's successful ballot initiative overturning the existing right of gays to marry in California, was largely financed by out-of-state money and represented a resounding defeat for the cause of same-sex marriage here. Precisely, however, when Prop 8 opponents finished licking their wounds and began gearing up to place their own counter-initiative on next year's ballot, fissures are appearing everywhere within the home team. A June L.A. Times poll of registered voters showed blacks to be decisively opposed to gay marriage, renewing anxiety among same-sex marriage forces about the attitudes of nonwhites toward the issue. Then the American Foundation for Equal Rights accused the Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the ACLU of trying to horn in on its federal lawsuit to overturn Prop 8, and rebuffed the three groups' offer to participate in the suit. About this same time in early July, Jasmyne Cannick, a prominent Los Angeles African American lesbian blogger, complained about gay whites coming into the black community to round up anti-Prop 8 ballot support through African American proxies. "Equality California," Cannick wrote, "one of those predominately white gay marriage groups that screwed up royally on Proposition 8, is opening up an office in Inglewood and beginning canvassing and mobilizing efforts in the area, including Baldwin Hills. Although, I seriously doubt they'll be canvassing in the Jungles, they're more interested in the voters at the top of the hill, if you know what I am saying."
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