In 2000, the State of California adopted Proposition 22 which, as an ordinary statute, forbade recognition or licensing of same-sex marriages in the state. During February and March 2004, San Francisco Mayor See more

Campaign funding and spending
The pro- and anti-Prop 8 campaigns spent a combined $106 million on the campaign. This was not the … See more

Amending the California Constitution by voter initiative requires a simple majority to be enacted.
Edison/Mitofsky conducted an exit poll on behalf of the See more

On November 13, 2008, Fred Karger of the group Californians Against Hate filed a complaint with the California Fair Political Practices Commission See more

In 2005, the site ProtectMarriage.com was created as the "Official website for the California Constitutional Marriage Amendment" and launched a campaign to pass a See more

Various opinion polls were conducted to estimate the outcome of the proposition. Those margins with differences less than their margins of error are marked as "n.s.", meaning not … See more

Immediate response
In California, a constitutional amendment passed by the electorate takes effect the day after the … See more