PROP 8 'EVE OF JUSTICE' VIGIL COVERAGE IN CALIFORNIA

Last night's vigils were held all throughout the nation on the eve of the California State Supreme Court to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the voter-passed Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California and revoked the marriage rights of millions of people.

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Columnist Rex Wockner informs us from San Diego on his blog.

San Francisco's newspaper, The SF Chronicle, highlights coverage of the vigils:  "Supporters of same-sex marriage marched from the Castro district to the state Supreme Court on the eve of a hearing to decide the fate of Proposition 8 - the controversial amendment to the state Constitution that bans marriages of two men or two women.".

The LA Times covers from downtown on last night's vigil.

"As rain fell and the song 'Fidelity' blasted through the sound system, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa presided Wednesday night over the "recommitment ceremonies" of half a dozen gay couples who married during the five-month period that such weddings were legal in California...Many of the 200 or so people who attended Los Angeles' vigil said they did not expect their demonstration to influence the justices who will decide whether Proposition 8 is valid."

San Jose, Mercury News reports: 

"As similar scenes played out across the state, San Jose gay-rights activists marched tonight in quiet solidarity on the eve of legal arguments before the California Supreme Court about the validity of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. 'This is about equality. We should get the same rights as everybody. We pay taxes just like straight people, we have families and we're even in the armed forces,' said Arlene Jimenez, of San Jose who married her longtime partner last October. Wednesday night, Jimenez held a makeshift candle and joined about 150 others who ringed the intersection at Winchester and Stevens Creek boulevards near Santana Row. There, groups holding huge banners supporting gay marriage, walked each corner, occasionally chanting, 'Gay straight, black, white, marriage is our civil right.' As they did so, cars passing by honked in support.

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