Dec 15 2008
A Look At The Past Year
Californians voted against same sex marriage and won. The case is still in limbo while the courts sort everything out and hear from both sides.
Arkansas has passed a law banning single parent adoptions meaning gay couples can no longer adopt a child.
Florida’s gay couple won the right to adopt a 14-year-old boy that has been in their custody for many years.
Ellen Degeneres got married to long time girlfriend Portia De Rossi.
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon are first lesbian couple to marry in California after the court overturned the ban. They were together for 5 years. Del Martin died a few months later.
Florida passed a ban on same sex marriages and the language will stop it from being overruled by the courts.
Demonstrations erupt in California after the ban on same sex marriages passes.
Mormon Church sent a white powder as a scare tactic. No one was found to have sent the envelope.
