California Proposition 22.

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...May 2000 Introduction: The California Protection of Marriage Initiative, Proposition 22, was designed to insure that California need not recognize gay marriages, when and if they become legal in other states. It has been claimed that Proposition 22 is not about gay activism, but instead it is activism from "the other side" which will have no effect regardless of which way the election goes as gay marriages are not legal in California. Sponsored by conservative state Sen. Pete Knight, the measure became another in the series of multimillion-dollar ballot battles that have been waged in California in recent yearsluding the polarizing anti-immigration (Proposition 187) and anti-affirmative action (Proposition 209) initiatives that have had profound political consequences inside and out of the state (York). Activism The text of Proposition 22 was brief: ``Only marriage between...

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