NAACP Joins Proposition 8 Challenge

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund has filed a friend of the court brief challenging California's Proposition 8, the voter-approved referendum against gay marriage ban, on the grounds that the basic rights of a minority group cannot be taken away by a simple majority. LDF joins other civil rights groups, the Asian American Pacific Legal Center, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Edu...

Portland Observer • Jan 23, 2009