Welcome back to a particularly confusing and enraging moment in queer history (and quite an embarrassing one for you, California).  Cat teaches us about Proposition 8, a ballot initiative in California that defined marriage between one man and one woman. What can we take away from this, and how can we use it to protect our future?

Learn more:

California Supreme Court summary

How Proposition 8 passed in California - and why it wouldn't today (Washington Post)

Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage (New York Times)

Full text of the initiative (protectmarriage.com from the Wayback machine)

 

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