Struggle over same-sex marriage continues in California but felt everywhere
By Ben Luongo
PoHo contributor
Ben Luongo is a USF political science graduate student. He will be graduating this spring.
Several hundred protesters took to the streets in San Francisco last week during a court hearing on Proposition 8, the amendment to the California Constitution that restricts same-sex marriage. Prop 8 was voted on in Nov. 2008 and followed a ruling in May that overturned restrictions on same-sex marriage. After that, California was in the business of marrying same-sex couples. This of course changed when California voted on Proposition 8 with 52 percent in favor of banning same-sex marriages. Now the court will have to rule on the validity of Prop 8.
