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San Diego county clerk withdraws bid to revive Proposition 8
SAN DIEGO — San Diego’s county clerk, the man charged with issuing marriage licenses there and the most prominent public figure to move against gay marriage in California since its recent resumption, has withdrawn a legal bid to stop the practice, saying he was ceding the fight to a group that already has a similar challenge pending.
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Calif. AG says San Diego clerk’s petition to block gay marriage is ‘improper’
SAN FRANCISCO — California Attorney General Kamala Harris says the elected clerk of San Diego County is improperly using the state’s legal system to try to prevent same-sex couples from getting married.
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Calif. Supreme Court rejects San Diego clerk’s bid to stop gay marriages
SAN FRANCISCO — California’s highest court is again refusing to immediately stop the state from sanctioning same-sex marriages.
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Calif. AG tells court to reject San Diego clerk’s bid to stop same-sex marriages
SAN FRANCISCO — California’s chief law enforcement officer urged the state Supreme Court on Monday to refuse once again to stop same-sex marriages while the justices consider a legal bid to revive Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that banned gay nuptials.
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Should states’ rights decide gay rights? Or any rights?
The citizens of each state want what they want. The people with the money have the power, and they want to mold their cities and towns to their own little standards, with their own little rules, their own little prejudices, and their own little innuendos. Those who struggle to keep their heads above the water have no money which means they have no power and their voice is very rarely, if ever, heard. They are considered “the other,” and the laws are never structured to their benefit … LGBTQ citizens fall into “the other” category.
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San Diego County clerk seeks end to Calif. gay marriages
SAN FRANCISCO — A San Diego County government official in charge of issuing marriage licenses asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to stop gay marriages.