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California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Tuesday protecting gay and transgender people from discrimination in state programs.

A bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the Golden State, which was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last year, will be reintroduced on Monday.

The California chapter of the gay GOP group will honor Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, despite his veto of a same-sex marriage bill.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would veto a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage if California lawmakers passed it again this year.

A bill passed by California lawmakers would have prohibited the use of language in school textbooks that is discriminatory toward gays, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to sign it.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday followed through on a promise to veto a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in California, saying the issue should be decided by voters or the courts.

The Democrat trying to unseat California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he would do what his opponent couldn't--sign a same-sex marriage bill into law.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced late Wednesday that he will veto a bill that would have made California the first state to legalize same-sex marriage through legislative action.

Amid spontaneous chants of "Four more years!" California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared Thursday night at a Los Angeles fund-raiser for the California chapter of the gay political group Log Cabin Republicans.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced the first change to his administration since his resounding special election failure, appointing Susan Kennedy, a longtime Democratic activist and lesbian, as his chief of staff.

By a strong 22-15 vote, the California senate on Friday sent a marriage equality bill to the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who pledged this year that he would veto such legislation. The bill passed the state assembly in June with one vote to spare.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will most likely face another bill to legalize same-sex marriage in California, but most people fear he will take the same action he did with a similar bill that came across his desk in 2005: veto it.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that he would fight an initiative to amend the California constitution to ban same-sex marriage if it qualifies for the November ballot. Schwarzenegger has vetoed bills that would allow gay marriage but said he opposes the sort of amendments that are being proposed by two competing groups. Such amendments are already on the books in 26 states, but the governor said it would be a ''waste of time'' to pursue one in California.

Gearing up for a tough November 8 election, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is promising not to use the issue of same-sex marriage to score political points with conservative Republicans, despite his plan to veto a same-sex marriage bill passed by the California legislature.

Gay rights leaders in California will meet with top aides to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger just two days before a groundbreaking same-sex marriage bill passed by the legislature is due to hit his desk. But that doesn't mean the governor isn't still planning to veto it.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed another same-sex marriage bill Friday, saying voters and the California supreme court, not lawmakers, should decide the issue. The Republican governor turned down a measure by Assemblyman Mark Leno that would have defined marriage as a union between two people, not just a man and a woman. Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill from Leno, a San Francisco Democrat, in 2005 and has said he would veto all such bills.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a second assembly bill that would have granted gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. Equality California's executive director, Geoff Kors, tells The Advocate why he's still optimistic that marriage equality is in our future.