Same-sex marriage cake toppers are displayed on a shelf at Fantastico in 2017 in San Francisco. The California Constitution will no longer include outdated language that defines only marriages between a man and a woman as valid, after voters approved Proposition 3 on Tuesday. The measure amends the state Constitution to recognize a “fundamental right to marry, regardless of sex …
California has changed since 2008 when it comes to attitudes about same-sex marriage, and that’s all to the good. Despite voting overwhelmingly for Barack Obama for president that year, the state’s electorate also passed Proposition 8, a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. By that time, a USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll had already found that 58% of Californians believed that …