Calif. legislature on way to condemning Prop 8

Two weeks before the California Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Proposition 8, the legislature is moving to condemn the voter- approved measure which bans same-sex marriage in the state.The Assembly Judiciary Committee voted 7-3 to put the legislature on record as opposing Prop 8. The resolution goes next to the full Assembly.

The vote came as about 1000 members of the state’s LGBT communities converged on the legislature to lobby lawmakers.

The group ignored heavy rain, but many members of the Senate were unavailable - tied up in meetings trying to resolve California’s financial crisis. Nevertheless, the gay volunteers pressed on, buttonholing lawmakers to press the case that Prop 8 enshrined discrimination in the state Constitution.