CA ballot summary on gay marriage ban OK’d

by Samantha Young
The EDGE Los Angeles

SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento judge yesterday said state officials don’t have to rewrite the ballot summary describing Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban voters will consider in November.

The ruling is a setback for the initiative’s supporters, who say the title and summary written by Attorney General Jerry Brown are argumentative and could prejudice voters.

Proposition 8 supporters also had asked Frawley to order state officials to modify arguments against the measure that will appear in voter pamphlets, including one saying the initiative won’t affect school instruction. He denied that request.

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Sacramento Gay Bashing being investigated as hate crime

Daivd Begnaud, reporter
CBS 13

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ― Marquis Bryant says he was just leaving a nightclub when four men beat him so badly he had to be hospitalized.A bruised head and swollen eye didn't stop 20-year-old Marquis from speaking publicly about the attack.

He's admittedly afraid after what happened, but said he is not afraid of who he is.

"I've been called names while I was out, but never like this," said Bryant.Bryant says the attackers started by yelling offensive remarks."I was being called a 'fag', a 'faggott.'

The next thing I know I'm hitting the ground," said Bryant.

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Sacramento men arrested in what police say was 'gay-bashing'

By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
San Francisco Chronicle

Three Sacramento men have been arrested after a beating that law enforcement officials describe as a hate crime against homosexuals, police said Friday.

The Thursday evening incident at a Sacramento gas station came just hours after the California Supreme Court issued a ruling overturning a state ban on same-sex marriages.

A 23-year-old Sacramento man was sitting with another man in a car near the station's restroom when the three suspects asked if he was a homosexual, Sacramento Police Officer Michelle Lazark said.

The man said he was. When he got out of the car, the three men beat and kicked him, Lazark said. He did not require medical treatment.

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