SAN FRANCISCO — Ten months after its passage, Proposition 8 will be the focal point of a lot of hate and loathing during this weekend’s State Bar annual meeting in San Diego.

On Saturday, while protesters boycott the host hotel, the Manchester Grand Hyatt, for its owner’s financial support of the measure that ended California’s brief experiment with same-sex marriage, a roomful of lawyers will be debating ways to attack Prop 8 less than a mile away at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. Some bar associations have gone on the record opposing the measures, but if history is any indication, their passage is a foregone conclusion.

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