A civil rights group billing itself as Love Honor Cherish has partnered with the NOH8 Campaign to "create a public education campaign telling voters why marriage equality is important." Specifically, the two will work together to help repeal Prop 8, California's LDS-backed same-sex marriage ban. Last December, Love Honor Cherish began harvesting signatures for an statewide initiative that, if it lands on the November ballot, would ask voters whether or not they want to repeal Prop. The group has until May 14 to collect 807,615 valid signatures to qualify.

"Independent voters a key wing factor in elections," Eric Harrison, key member of LHC, told San Diego Gay & Lesbian News. "The fact that this [polling number] has moved from 49% to 60% in two years is incredibly encouraging and strongly indicates that California would be ready to repeal this at the ballot in 2012."

Reason to Party, a group that brings together young professional to flirt and booze while supporting a sundry of charities, plans to kick off its with a benefit for Love Honor Cherish next Sunday at Vessel in San Francisco's Union Square. NOH8 co-founders will be there to announce the partnership. It starts at 6 p.m. and we encourage you to attend.

However. If Prop 8 were repealed, what would happen to the case currently pending in California court? The answer, many believe, is that the case would be stopped in its tracks. Many believe that the current case will make it all the way to the US Supreme Court, where the justices could make a decision ending in full nationwide marriage equality. But hey, at least we would have fixed things in California! Fuck you, rest of the country!