CA Action Alert- Ask your Legislators to Repeal Prop 8

Proposition 8 eliminated the right of California couples to marry the person they love. The CA Legislature voted twice in recent years to provide marriage rights to all California couples, only to be vetoed by Governor Schwarzenagger. As the LGBTQ community pursues various strategies to overturn Prop 8 and to continue to advocate for marriage equality, you can make your voice heard today with your election officials.
Our friends at Equality California are sponsoring two resolutions in the CA Legislature. These resolutions, if passed, will make it official state policy that Prop 8 should be overturned.
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Already, over half a million Californians have used the EQCA action center to have their voices be heard. Will you please join them?
Though the Legislature cannot overturn Prop 8 with these votes, it can lead by example and stand firm on the side of equality. The resolutions declare that because Prop 8 dramatically revised the Constitution, it is invalid. Constitutional revisions must first be approved by a two-thirds vote in the Legislature before going to voters. A slim majority should not be able take away the equal protections of a minority.
This is a critical time, as the courts consider the cases litigation organizations such as the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the ACLU have filed and the voices of thousands of youth and adults with LGBTQ parents and the entire LGBTQ community and our and allies.
To read the responses of COLAGE young adult leaders to the passage of Prop 8 and our thoughts about the election, please visit our November release on the issue.