{"id":1008,"date":"2012-02-17T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T14:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=1008"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:46:20","slug":"prop8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/02\/17\/prop8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bullying and Bolstering Effects of Ballot Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Natalya C. Maisel and Adam W. Fingerhut, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1540-4560.2011.01696.x\/abstract \">&ldquo;California&#8217;s Ban on Same-Sex Marriage: The Campaign and its Effects on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Individuals,&rdquo; <em>Journal of Social Issues<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2011<\/span><\/div>\n<p>California&#8217;s controversial Prop 8 (the ban on same-sex marriage) has now been struck down as unconstitutional, but ballot initiatives themselves can have lasting effects even if they&#8217;re unsuccessful. This article illustrates how and why the campaigns impact the targeted groups. Using community interviews from 2008, the authors show that\u00a0the fight for the measure made gay people feel excluded and unequal, but also gave friends and family a moment to rally around their loved ones in opposition to the ballot initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalya C. Maisel and Adam W. Fingerhut, &ldquo;California&#8217;s Ban on Same-Sex Marriage: The Campaign and its Effects on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Individuals,&rdquo; Journal of Social Issues, 2011 California&#8217;s controversial Prop 8 (the ban on same-sex marriage) has now been struck down as unconstitutional, but ballot initiatives themselves can have lasting effects even if they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[37336,176,1969],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-sexuality","tag-stigma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8356,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/8356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}