SACRAMENTO, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- California lawmakers say their resolutions supporting the overthrow of a ban on same-sex marriages are about civil rights rather than politics.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear a challenge to a voter-passed measure that would outlaw same-sex marriages in the state.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he supports aid for the auto industry and will not personally fight the state's voter-approved a gay marriage ban.
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Six of the seven members of the California Supreme Court attending a conference Friday listened to arguments about same-sex marriage, observers said.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Gay rights activists say a number of protests are occurring in California in opposition of a new ban on same-sex marriage statewide.
HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Connecticut began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, an act eclipsed by Election Day ballot measures in three other states barring gay marriages.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Forty-three California lawmakers have filed a brief urging the state Supreme Court to void a proposition that strips same-sex couples of the right to marry.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Sunday said "we will ... maybe undo" a measure passed by voters Tuesday stripping same-sex couples of the right to marry.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Black voters in California who supported Barack Obama for president voted overwhelmingly to ban same-sex marriage in the state, say election analysts.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Singer Melissa Etheridge says she doesn't see why she should have to pay state taxes if as a lesbian she doesn't have the same rights as other Californians.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Gay rights activists gathered Thursday outside a Mormon temple in Los Angeles to protest the church's role in repealing same-sex marriage in California.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union and two gay-rights groups are challenging a voter-passed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages in California.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- TV actor George Takei, who wed his longtime partner Brad Altman in September, said it is astounding to him that California voters chose to ban gay marriage.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- As Florida and Arizona voters elected to ban gay marriages, Californians voted to overturn a court decision legalizing same-sex marriages.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Same-sex couples in California were flocking to get married as a ballot initiative to overturn the unions' legality hung in the balance, officials said.
