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SACRAMENTO, July 19 (UPI) -- A California opponent of the state's 2008 gay marriage banning Proposition 8 said he is collecting signatures for a divorce-banning measure.
John Marcotte, 38, a Sacramento father of two, said he was inspired to create the 2012 California Marriage Protection Act by the pro-Proposition 8 campaigners claiming the law was designed to protect traditional marriage, the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News reported Monday.
"Don't stop gay people from getting married; stop straight people from getting divorced," Marcotte said of the idea behind his proposed ballot initiative, which would ban divorce but allow for religious annulments. "It's a much more direct way of achieving the goal of Prop 8."
Marcotte said he received permission from the California secretary of state's office to begin collecting signatures last week. He said he needs nearly 700,000 approved signatures by spring to get on the June 2012 ballot.
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