Students protest Prop. 8 ruling with mock marriages

Megan Belchamber handed her carton of chocolate milk to a friend to hold while she “married” Natalie Salagean in a lunchtime ceremony Tuesday at Palm Springs High School.
After the ceremony, the sophomores tied a gold ribbon around each others’ ring fingers to symbolize the bond.
The two are members of the Palm Springs High School Gay-Straight Alliance.
They joined about 70 other couples in mock wedding ceremonies in support of marriage equality.
Students organized and participated in the rally in response to the California Supreme Court’s recent ruling to uphold Proposition 8, passed by California voters, which states marriage is between a man and a woman.
“We were disappointed for about five minutes, then we stood up and decided we wanted to send a really strong message,” said Vanessa Wilcox, president of the alliance. See Students protest Prop. 8 ruling with mock marriages The Desert Sun

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