Sacramento joins other cities in fighting voter-approved Prop. 8, calling it unconstitutional

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The Sacramento City Council voted Tuesday afternoon to join other California cities in supporting the position that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.

Prop. 8, passed by voters in November, amended the state constitution to declare that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid in California.

Councilman Kevin McCarty requested last month that the council hear the issue of whether the city should join as "amicus curiae" - or friends of the court - in legal challenges against Prop. 8. The California Supreme Court said Tuesday it would begin hearing oral arguments on the challenge to Prop. 8 on March 5...

San Francisco, Berkeley, Cloverdale, Davis, Fairfax, Long Beach, Palm Springs and West Hollywood, as well as Santa Clara, Humboldt and Sonoma counties have already filed amicus curiae briefs supporting the position that Prop. 8 is unconstitutional.

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