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Counted Out: Same-sex Relations and Americans' Definitions of Family (The American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology) (Updated Edition) by Brian Powell, Claudia Geist, Lala Carr Steelman, Catherine Blozendahl, Catherine Bolzendahl Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-87154-687-6 / 0871546876 ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-687-6 / 9780871546876 When state voters passed the California Marriage Protection Act (Proposition 8) in 2008, it restricted the definition of marriage to a legal union between a man and a woman. The act s passage further agitated an already roiling debate about whether American notions of family could or should expand t |