Gay Rights Groups in California Differ on How to Proceed

Courage Campaign, a grass-roots organization in California, announced its plans to move forward next year toward a ballot vote that could overturn the voter-approved Proposition 8.

Hours later, Equality California, a leading gay rights group in California, indicated that it will not seek to overturn the proposition in the immediate future.  The group is aiming for November 2012 as a ballot date because “greater numbers of young voters who support gay rights will turn out — and be of voting age — in 2012, a presidential election year.”

See Jess McKinley, Caution on Fighting Marriage Ban, NY Times, Aug. 12, 2009.