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California will try to enshrine right to same-sex marriage

FILE - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom speaks during a rally against California Proposition 8 on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif., Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. California lawmakers are going to try to introduce legislation Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, to officially repeal a 15-year-old voter initiative meant to ban same-sex marriage in the state. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) FILE - Protesters march in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008, during the latest demonstrations held around the country since Californians adopted Proposition 8, which amended the California Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. California lawmakers are going to try to introduce legislation Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, to officially repeal a 15-year-old voter initiative meant to ban same-sex marriage in the state. (AP Photo/Robert Durell, File) FILE - Nancy Ibbotson, 44, left and Barbara Schumacher, 46, right, both of Sacramento, California, listen to speakers on the west steps of the California state Capitol, Saturday, November 22, 2008, a protest against the recent passage of measure that bans people of the same sex from marrying. California lawmakers are going to try to introduce legislation Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, to officially repeal a 15-year-old voter initiative meant to ban same-sex marriage in the state. (AP Photo/Robert Durell,File) FILE - California state Sen. Scott Wiener speaks to the crowd during a community parade along Lake Street in the Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, Saturday, April 30, 2022. California lawmakers are going to try to introduce legislation Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, to officially repeal a 15-year-old voter initiative meant to ban same-sex marriage in the state. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File) FILE - John Kisimir and his daughter Timpi, 3, along with other parishioners listen to Rev. Edwin Bacon, of All Saints Episcopal Church, during a news conference in support of same-sex marriages and in fighting Proposition 8, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008, in Pasadena, Calif. California lawmakers are going to try to introduce legislation Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, to officially repeal a 15-year-old voter initiative meant to ban same-sex marriage in the state. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas, File) FILE - Protesters gather on the west steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Nov. 22, 2008, to protest the passage of Proposition 8 in the recent election. California lawmakers are going to try to introduce legislation Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, to officially repeal a 15-year-old voter initiative meant to ban same-sex marriage in the state. (AP Photo/Robert Durell, File) FILE - Assemblyman Evan Low, D-San Jose, and Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, chat following the opening session of the California Assembly in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. California lawmakers are going to try to introduce legislation Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, to officially repeal a 15-year-old voter initiative meant to ban same-sex marriage in the state. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas,File)
California will try to enshrine right to same-sex marriage