The California Council of Churches, several Episcopal bishops, the General Synod of the United Church of Christ, the Northern Cal. Nevada Conference of the UCC, the Southern Cal. Conference of the UCC, the Progressive Jewish Alliance, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, and Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry California have filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate or Prohibition against Proposition 8.

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"The religious institutions that file this petition - and their member congregations and parishioners - count on article XVIII to ensure that the California Constitution's guarantee of equal protection for religious minorities cannot be taken away without a deliberative process of the utmost care possible in a representative democracy. If Proposition 8 is upheld, however, the assurance will disappear - for, just as surely as gay men and lesbians could be deprived of equal protection by a simple majority vote, so too could religious minorities be deprived of equal protection - a terrible irony in a nation founded by people who emigrated to escape religious persecution."

This now makes a total of 3 additional petitions filed on behalf of racial minority groups, women's groups, and now church groups who feel that Prop. 8 will cause erosion of their own civil rights.

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