Nurses Rally to Support Marriage Equality in California

by via Mike Hall, AFL-CIO

Thu, Nov 20, 2008 7:09AM

Thursday, November 20, 2008 : Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) joined several thousand LGBT, civil rights, labor, community and religious activists in San Francisco in recent days in a demonstration calling for marriage equality.

Along with the San Francisco rally, tens of thousands of people took part in rallies backing equal marriage rights for all and protesting the Nov. 4 passage of Prop. 8 in California, which bans lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples from the right to marry.

According to the Los Angeles Times, civil rights groups, religious organizations and local governments have filed six lawsuits asking the California Supreme Court to declare the measure an illegal constitutional revision.

Pride At Work, the AFL-CIO’s LGBT constituency group, the CNA/NNOC, California Teachers Association (CTA), California Federation of Labor, United Farm Workers (UFW), the League of Women Voters and the California NAACP were part of the large coalition that mobilized opposition to Prop. 8.

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