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CA: Love Honor Cherish Begins Gathering Signatures to Repeal Prop 8

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Prop 8 RepealAs the fight to repeal Proposition 8 on the November ballot begins, Love Honor Cherish has partnered with the NOH8 Campaign to create a public education campaign telling voters why marriage equality is important.

The partnership will launch at a party being organized by nonprofit group “Reason to Party” in San Francisco this Sunday, Jan. 22.

Love Honor Cherish was formed in 2008 and has dedicated itself to repealing Prop. 8 in November. Last month, the group brought on Eric Harrison, formerly of EQCA, to serve as its first paid staff member to help coordinate its effort.

Full Story from SDGLN

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CA: Prop 8 Repeal Gets Go Ahead for Signature Collection

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

Prop 8 RepealA gay rights group that wants to repeal the state constitutional amendment that stripped same-sex couples in California of the right to get married received clearance Friday to start gathering signatures for a measure that would rescind the gay marriage ban known as Proposition 8.

Los Angeles-based Love, Honor, Cherish has until May 14 to collect the 807,615 voter signatures required to qualify its initiative for the November 2012 ballot, the secretary of state’s office said.

California voters passed Proposition 8 with 52 percent of the vote in November 2008, five months after the state Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage by striking down a pair of laws that had limited marriage to a man and a woman. The measure inserted the one man-one woman provision into the state Constitution, thereby overruling the court’s decision and halting same-sex marriages in California.

Full Story from SFGate

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Equality Maine Collects Signatures at Polls – 60K Down, 15K to Go

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Maine Marriage EqualitySupporters of same-sex marriage hoped to use the critical mass of voters on Election Day to reach their goal of gathering more than 75,000 petition signatures to put a question on next year’s ballot.

In August, a coalition led by EqualityMaine launched a petition drive for a citizens’ initiative that would ask Mainers the following question on the November 2012 ballot:

“Do you favor a law allowing marriage licenses for same-sex couples that protects religious freedom by ensuring no religion or clergy be required to perform such a marriage in violation of their religious beliefs?”

Full Story from the Bangor Daily News

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From the Front Lines in Maine

Monday, October 24th, 2011

Maine Marriage Equality EffortIn the spirit of the University of Maine’s celebration of Coming Out Week and Equality Maine’s initiative to put same-sex marriage on the 2012 ballot, today’s column will commence with a personal anecdote.

I’m gay. I neither wear panda hats nor parade half-naked with “gay pride” painted on my chest. I wear turtlenecks and Dansko clogs. I have a wonderful family — parents still married and in love. No adultery, no drugs, no alcohol. I don’t have tattoos, gauged piercings, spiked hair or track lines. I respect others, and I respect myself. This is a part of me, and it’s not wrong. It’s not sexy. It’s not a trend.
It just is.

My sexual orientation unfortunately has become a taboo subject — something I cannot discuss as freely as heterosexuals who never have to divulge “I’m straight” to the general public. They don’t need to. They have legal rights and are not portrayed as unnatural heathens who maraud the streets and attempt to lure children into moral degeneration. Upon volunteering for Equality Maine this fall, I encountered disconcerting hostility and animosity towards the issue of marriage equality.

Full Story from The Maine Campus

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WA: Gay Activists to Publish R-71 Petition Names Online

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Washington Referendum 71 SignaturesA gay rights group has announced it will publish the names of foes of a Washington law that recognizes gay and lesbian couples with nearly all the legal protections of marriage.

On Monday, social conservatives lost their legal case to keep private the names of signers of a petition that attempted to repeal the law.

Conservatives wanted to block the public release of the nearly 138,000 signatures that put Referendum 71 on the state’s ballot in 2009. The ballot initiative asked voters to accept – or reject – an expansion of an existing domestic partnership law approved by lawmakers. Voters opted 53-to-46 to keep the law dubbed “everything but marriage” by the media.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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WA: State Releases R71 Petitions After Judicial Decision

Monday, October 17th, 2011

Washington Referendum 71 SignaturesWashington state officials on Monday released copies of signature petitions that forced a vote on a 2009 domestic partnership law, disclosing the names of signers after a judge rejected arguments that supporters could be harassed.

The Washington State Archives provided a DVD to The Associated Press showing the 138,000 signatures for Referendum 71. The release came despite an attorney’s vow to appeal the ruling and seek temporary protection from the disclosure of names.

Gary Randall, a spokesman for the group Protect Marriage Washington, said he thought it was terrible that the state released the names. “I believe there will certainly be harassment, and I pray to God there isn’t more than that,” he said.

Full Story from CBS

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WA: Fight Continues Over Release of Petition Signers’ Names

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Washington Referendum 71 SignaturesHe’s known in federal-court documents as John Doe #2, a former youth pastor and unabashed opponent of gay marriage who two years ago signed a petition to put benefits for same-sex couples up to a statewide vote.

Doe is unnamed because Protect Marriage Washington, the conservative organization that ran the Referendum 71 campaign to roll back those benefits, worries about harassment and reprisals against him and 137,500 others who signed the petition.

He is the second of two John Doe plaintiffs in a lawsuit the group filed in 2009 against Washington’s secretary of state. The action succeeded in blocking release of all their names.

Full Story from the Seattle Times

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IL: Group Collecting Signatures for Marriage Equality Ban in Chicago

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Illinois Gay Marriage BanA group of 15 men and women representing the Illinois Defense of Marriage Initiative was spotted in front of the Art Institute of Chicago Aug. 22.

Some held signs that said “Honk for Traditional Marriage.” However, the focus was on the group’s statewide effort to place an advisory marriage referendum on the 2012 Illinois ballot. Several individuals approached passers-by in an attempt to get signatures on their petition. Approximately a dozen Chicago police officers on mountain bikes monitored the group.

There were some heated exchanges between some pedestrians and the group’s members. At one point a woman shouted “This is hateful! YOU’RE the ones going to hell.” One of the group’s organizers responded that he was “just out doing his job.”

Full Story from Windy City

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ME: Marriage Equality Petition Gets 5,200 Signatures in First Day

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Maine Gay Marriage Initiative 2012Gay marriage supporters in Maine gathered more than 5,000 signatures during the first official day of petition-gathering around the states.

EqualityMaine targeted a number of communities including Portland, Kennebunk, Biddeford, York, Bangor, Ellsworth and Brunswick on Saturday. The idea was to hit heavily attended summer festivals.

On Sunday, EqualityMaine put the tally at 5,200.

Full Story from the Houston Chronicle

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CO: State Board Clears Marriage Equality Measure for Signature Gathering

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Gay marriage supporters were cleared Wednesday to begin collecting signatures on a petition to repeal Colorado’s same-sex marriage ban.

A state board charged with approving proposed ballot measures voted 3-0 to allow a measure to repeal the ban, which voters placed in the state constitution in 2006. The measure would strike the ban and say marriage is allowed regardless of the participants’ gender.

Gay-marriage activists would need to collect about 86,000 valid signatures to make the 2012 ballot.

Full Story from Coloradan.com

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