Newsday Story on LA/Silverlake protest

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http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4a80eu-us-gaymarriage-california/

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8, 2008 (Reuters) — Several thousand people gathered in Los Angeles on Saturday evening to protest a voter-approved ballot measure that bans same-sex marriage in California.
Robert Oliver (L) holds a rainbow colored flag as a woman who identified herself as Mama Joi (R) talks to a crowd outside the Los Angeles California Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during a "No on Prop 8" march and rally on Santa Monica Blvd. in Los Angeles, November 6, 2008. The protesters were marching to the Mormon Church which supported Proposition 8, the ballot measure that banned gay marriage, local media reported. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok

A diverse crowd, estimated at 5,000, stretched for blocks in the Silver Lake district, east of Hollywood, carrying signs and chanting against Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that bars the state from recognizing same-sex marriages.

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