California Elimination of Domestic Partnerships Initiative (2008)
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The Elimination of Domestic Partnerships Initiative (07-0061) was filed as an initiated constitutional amendment to the California Constitution. Its supporters hoped to qualify it for the November 2008 California ballot. To do that, they would have had to collect 694,354 valid signatures. However, the California Secretary of State announced on May 2, 2008 that the measure had failed to qualify.[1]
The goals of the initiative:
- Provide that only marriage between one man and one woman is valid or recognized in California.
- Prohibit decreasing marriage rights shared by one man and one woman.
- Define man and woman.
- Void or make unenforceable certain rights and obligations conferred by California law on same-sex and opposite-sex couples registered as domestic partners, concerning subject areas including, but not limited to, community property, intestate succession, stepparent adoption, child custody, child support, hospital visitation, health care decisions for an incapacitated partner, insurance benefits, death benefits, and recovery for wrongful death.
Proponents
Larry Bowler and Randy Thomasson.
