Why Claims that Black Californians Deserve Blame for the Passage of California’s Anti-Gay-Marriage Proposition 8 Are Unfair and Untrue

FindLaw's Writ
December 12, 2008
John Dean, White House Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973, writes, "Now, it is up to the California Supreme Court to say whether, in fact, a simple majority of California voters can deny gays equality. But it's possible that it did not have to be that way – and the failure to make the anti-Prop. 8 case effectively to black voters may well be to blame for our current situation." [Link]