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Same-Sex Marriage Foes Falter in '06 Ballot Efforts
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Dec 28, 2005 12:43pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Infighting, voter fatigue and a slow fundraising start appear to have plagued efforts by conservatives to place a measure on the 2006 ballot banning same-sex marriage in California.
The attempts to amend the California Constitution suffered a setback in recent days when two groups conceded that they would not qualify for the June 2006 ballot.
One group, ProtectMarriage.com, gathered fewer than half the 598,000 signatures required by Tuesday's deadline. Organizers said they might still decide to press ahead for the ballot next November, but a confluence of events has made it unlikely.
Californians appear to have gradually softened their views on same-sex marriage.
In 2000, polls showed that only 38% of likely voters in California supported same-sex marriage. But a poll this August showed 46% supporting it and 46% opposing. Among all California adults, 44% favored same-sex marriage and 48% opposed it, he said. |
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