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Jerry Brown's wording may trip up Prop. 8
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| Contributor | Patrick |
| Last Edited | Patrick Oct 26, 2008 01:47pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - San Francisco Chronicle |
| News Date | Sunday, October 26, 2008 07:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If same-sex marriage survives next week's ballot challenge, it will largely be due to state Attorney General Jerry Brown.
It was Brown's office that decided on the final ballot description for Proposition 8, the proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay and lesbian weddings.
And by changing the way the measure was framed in its title and summary, Brown just might have tipped the balance in what looks to be a close election.
Here's the story:
Prop. 8 asks voters to affirm that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California" - a concept that voters overwhelmingly backed when they approved Proposition 22 in 2000.
Voters still favor the traditional definition of marriage, 49 to 47 percent, according to the most recent Public Policy Institute of California poll.
However, in the wake of the state Supreme Court decision in May legalizing same-sex marriage, Brown worded Prop. 8's ballot description to specify that it "eliminates the right of same-sex couples to marry." |
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