This week the voters in the state of Maine will go to the polls to decide on a gay marriage referendum that is widely considered a test case for the rest of the nation. This vote is so important that ...

Following the horrific murders of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, the entertainment and political worlds are reflecting on a legacy that transcends film. While celebrated for directing ...

If you live in California and are a Republican, attend church at least once a week, hold socially conservative views, and are 65-years-old or older, you most likely voted “Yes” on Proposition 8 to ...

Forty-four California legislators filed a brief with the state Supreme Court on Nov. 10 urging that Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment that voters passed to re-ban same-sex marriage, be ...

At the center of the argument in the 136-page ruling that Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker issued overturning Proposition 8 was the argument that “moral and religious views” alone are not a “rational ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Backers of California's same-sex-marriage ban on Monday moved to wipe out last year's ruling that declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional, saying the federal judge who heard the ...

Plaintiffs challenging Proposition 8 may have found treasure in Monday's Supreme Court ruling on a San Francisco law school's discrimination policy. Lawyers for same-sex marriage proponents told the ...

This is Kevin Roderick with LA Observed on KCRW. We -– and by that I mean all of us in California -- have had a week and a half to absorb all that changed in the election. In the rest of the country, ...

A federal appeals court will hear arguments Thursday on whether a trial judge’s decision to strike down Proposition 8 should be overturned because the jurist failed to disclose he was in a long-term ...