Advocating for LGBTQ Families

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced he will veto the same-sex marriage legislation recently approved by the California legislature. Based on a California referendum in 2000, which passed a proposition defining marriage as between a man and a woman, Schwarzenegger says the issue should be decided by the courts or the voters, not by legislation. Let’s hope that LGBT and LGBT-friendly voters turn out in droves for any new referendum, and that the California judiciary views civil rights as fairly as the Massachusetts one did. Speaking of Massachusetts, though, same-sex marriage opponents there have gained some ground in a ruling by the Attorney General, Thomas F. Reilly, who said a proposed 2008 ballot question