One of the topics of discussion at last week's Supreme Court hearing on Proposition 8 was whether the government should be in the marriage business.
Well, on Tuesday two people filed an initiative to get the state of California out of the business altogether.
The initiative, filed by Kaelan Housewright and Ali Shams, replaces the term "marriage" with "domestic partnership" throughout California statutes, while preserving the rights of marriage.
Shams and Housewright are students, 22 and 21 respectively, the AP reported.
The next step would be to gather roughly 700,000 valid signatures to place the measure on the ballot -- a tall task.
But hey, they have a Facebook group...
PASSING THE HEALTHCARE BATON: Sen. Mark Leno will officially unveil legislation to provide universal healthcare in California through a single-payer system today.
Termed-out Sen. Sheila Kuehl had carried that mantle for several years -- even reaching Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk once, where it was vetoed.
On hand for the Capitol press conference will be a handful of current (Mariko Yamada, Loni Hancock, Dean Florez, Wes Chesbro), former (Virginia Strom Martin) and wanna-be lawmakers (Bill Durston), along with the California Nurses Association and other advocates.
ECONOMIC WOES: Virtually every California (96 percent) says we've hit bad economic times, according to the latest Field Poll.
That's the highest proportion in the three decades-plus the poll has asked that question.
And people don't see things improving, with 41 percent saying the climate will be worse in the next 12 months and only 29 percent seeing improvement.
Find the exclusive statistical tabulations.
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