same sex couples

Voters in California narrowly approved Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment restricting marriage to heterosexual couples.

California was one of the few states where gay couples could marry legally. Same sex partners now are turning to the courts, hoping to restore that right.

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The company will donate $100,000 to the No on Prop 8 campaign, which opposes a California ballot initiative that would bar same-sex couples from marrying.

Same-sex couples filed into county offices to get official marriage licenses Tuesday, the first full day the California Supreme Court's ruling overturning the ban on gay marriages went into effect.

But in Bakersfield, many support the county clerk's decision to stop performing all marriage ceremonies.

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In California, two elderly women were one of the first same-sex couples to marry in the state. Their marriage begins a busy week for county registrars around the Golden State.

The state's Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage took effect Monday.

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