When Do We Go Back to the Voters to Repeal Prop 8?

Those initiative campaigns convince us that rather than asking what year we should go back to the ballot to repeal Proposition 8, we should be focusing on where we need to be with the voters to stand a solid chance of winning. We should, we believe, go to the ballot when we've established the predicates we need to win, and not a moment later or sooner. We think that we haven't established the pre...

ACLU • Jul 14, 2009

The Prop. 8 Case: You Might Not Be Gay, But You Might Be Next

Marriage isn't the only thing at stake here. If the California Constitution can be amended to take the right to marry away from gay people, then any fundamental right could be snatched away from any group that's outnumbered at the polling places. As one of the signs seen at the massive protests that have taken place around the country in the wake of Proposition 8 says, "You may not be gay - but yo...

ACLU • Feb 2, 2009