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The CEO of Cinemark, the company that operates 2700 screens internationally including the only movie theatre used at the Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah, has reportedly donated a large sum of money to support Prop 8, the ballot initiative that eliminated gay marriage in California. Alan Stock donated $9,999 in late October to proponents of the measure.
Cinemark, whose branding goes by Century Theatre, CineArts and Tinseltown, has a few locations in the Los Angeles area including North Hollywood, Long Beach and Orange County.
Restaurants and hotels have already been subject to boycott discussion this week.
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Oh Front Row Joe, say it isn't so!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiJ9IUZ2Yko&feature=related
there will be no boycott at the Sundance Festival in Park City by a gay filmaker they know where their money, fame comes from Sundace baby
Great Job Sundance, vote your beliefs. If they don't agree, then that just opens the door to other filmmakers.
The constitution can be changed by either amendments or revisions, the latter of which is defined as a "substantial change to the entire constitution, rather than ... a less extensive change in one or more of its provisions".[2]. Amendments may be passed by a two-thirds vote in both houses of the state legislature or a California ballot initiative, which a majority of voters must approve. Any citizen may petition for an amendment to be placed on the ballot if they gather signatures equal to 8% of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, among the lowest thresholds for similar measures of any U.S. state.[3] As of 2008[update], this was 694,354 signatures[4] compared to an estimated 2007 population of 36,553,215.[5] Revisions originally required a constitutional convention but today can be passed with a two-thirds vote in the legislature much like an amendment.
Prior to 1977, California Civil Code section 4100 (predecessor to what is now codified at California Family Code section 300) defined marriage as: "a personal relation arising out of a civil context, to which consent of the parties making that contract is necessary."[3]
While related sections made references to gender, a state assembly committee that was debating adding gender-specific terms to this section in 1977 noted: "Under existing law it is not clear whether partners of the same sex can get married."[4] That year, the legislature amended the definition of marriage to remove any ambiguity.
When Prop 22 came before voters, section 300 defined marriage as:
a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between a man and a woman, to which the consent of the parties capable of making that contract is necessary. [5]
Even though the definition governing who may marry explicitly precluded contracting a same-sex marriage in California, a separate provision, section 308, governed recognition of marriages contracted elsewhere:
A marriage contracted outside this state that would be valid by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the marriage was contracted is valid in this state. [6]
Advocates of Prop 22 described section 308 as a "loophole," apparently forcing California to recognize a same-sex marriage validly contracted in some other state.[7] After passage, Prop 22 added a new section, codified at section 308.5, that reads:
Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. [8]