As the California Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on a slew of legal challenges to Prop 8 -- the gay marriage ban passed by voters in November of last year -- we decided to ask Lambda Legal's Marriage Project Director, Jenny Pizer, about the history of California's marriage equality struggle, the challenges of arguing before the Supreme Court in the wake of the election, and whether she can predict what the Court will rule.
Can you give us a quick history lesson on the same-sex-marriage struggle in California?
The work in California started back in the early 1990s in terms of community organizing around marriage. From '96 to '99 there were fights in the state legislature, when [then state senator] Pete Knight was trying to change our family code to deny respect to couples' marriages from other places, but he kept failing. He got stopped in the legislature three years in a row. He then brought Proposition 22 to the voters in March of 2000, and the initiative statute was passed to deny respect to [same-sex] marriages from other states.
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