Poster of the Week

 

Make Civil Rights Equal for All People

Artist Unknown

Silkscreen, 2010

Los Angeles, California

32864

CSPG’s Poster of the Week refers to two historic cases about Marriage Equality being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week.  The two cases (United States v. Windsor;  Perry v. Schwarzenegger) challenge the constitutionality of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8.  Both DOMA, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, and Proposition 8, passed in 2008, stipulate that marriage is only between a man and a woman, denying same sex couples the same rights and benefits of their heterosexual counterparts.

Additional Sources:

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/27/inside_the_landmark_same_sex_marriage

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/27/widower_of_first_openly_gay_congressman

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/27/a_historic_moment_california_couple_on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8