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The name of the prop actually wasn't confusing. Initially it was called "California Marriage Protection Act", which is pretty common for anti-gay-marriage acts
by sbov 8y ago
The name of the prop actually wasn't confusing.
Initially it was called "California Marriage Protection Act", which is pretty common for anti-gay-marriage acts.
Later it was called "Eliminate Rights of Same Sex Couples to Marry". Which is 100% obvious.
Only people who lazily called it the "gay marriage prop" were confused.
- gumby 8y agoThanks! I looked it up and the rewriting of titles preceded prop 8, though the prop 8 folks litigated furiously (amusingly they claimed the new title was "inflammatory" when it was actually text taken from the question). I remember people being confused about the polarity of the vote, but then again I remembered incorrectly that the title approval had been because of prop 8 so who knows.