Proposition 8, again...

California Supreme Court begins today to hear oral arguments on whether to uphold the state's voter-passed initiative Proposition 8.

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A small majority of California voters (52%) may have supported Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment passed four months ago that eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry.

But as the state Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments on a series of legal challenges to the law, more and more members of the state's political establishment continue to take a public stand against it—raising questions, in some quarters, about why so many politicians here have opted to openly break with a majority of voters.
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Source: LCL Blog - 04/Mar/2009.