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Golden State’s Prop 8: A Cultural Conundrum

By Liriel Higa and CQ Guest Columnist
Posted April 21, 2009 at 12:00am

Living Library Project
Santa Monica Library “collection”
was unconstitutional.
to remain legal.
recall justices who vote to overturn Prop 8.
legal in 13 states.
Liriel Higa is a former Congressional Quarterly reporter who now lives and writes on the West Coast

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