Equality In California
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.comFound 50 days, 16 hours, 37 minutes, and 41 seconds agoYes: the court just ruled for it - sixty years after California's court was the first to strike down miscegenation bans. The most populous state now joins much of the rest of the Western world in bringing gay couples into the civic and human family as equals. ...
California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban.
thinkprogress.orgFound 50 days, 16 hours, and 47 seconds agoThe California Supreme Court has overturned the state's ban on gay marriage today, "paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry." The court stated that "an individual's sexual orientation - like a person's race or gender - does not constitute ...
Definition of Marriage Is at Heart of California Case
nytimes.comFound 121 days, 15 hours, 19 minutes, and 20 seconds agoCalifornia Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
talkleft.com
Gay marriage can not be prohibited in California :
The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry. The justices released the 4-3 decision Thursday, saying that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage in an opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George.
Here is the opinion (PDF). Kevin Drum has more on an initiative being proposed to amend the California Constitution to allow such a prohibition.
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trent.blogspot.com
OMG! THIS JUST IN ... the California Supreme Court has just struck down the State's ban on same-sex marriage , paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry!!!!
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concurringopinions.com
There will undoubtedly be many posts across the blogs about this but as a heads up the California Supreme Court " has overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage, paving the way for the state to become the second in the United States where gay and lesbian residents can marry ."
The California Supreme Court has a page with many useful links . Here is the link to the pdf of the decision (apparently more than 170 pages).
One prediction (no magic here): watch for candidates being asked what they think not about the decision and the state law issues but the idea of gay mariage in general.
Found 50 days, 16 hours, 21 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
onegoodmove.org
California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot.
Domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage, the justices ruled 4-3 in an opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George.
Outside the courthouse, gay marriage suppo
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hoffmania.com
The California Supreme Court just overturned a ban on gay marriages . Excellent.
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nytimes.com
California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
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stevesilver.net
News Item: California court overturns gay marriage ban
This is great news. Two down, 48 to go.
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nytimes.com
California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
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parabasis.typepad.com
The California Supereme Court has ruled the ban on gay marriage in California unconstitutional !
I wonder what McCain'll say about it? Think he'll call of a Constitutional ban on gay marriage like Bush did? Hmm...
In the meantime, I would say that I would prefer the word "marriage" (and some of the legal benefits) be dropped and the government certify "civil unions" between both inter-sex and same-sex couples. But if we're not going to do that, gay couples should be allowed to enter into the exact same legal arrangements as straight couples and get the same benefits and have it called the same goddamn thing .
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thebluevoice.blogspot.com
The New York Times reports that the California Supreme Court overturned a ban on gay marriage today.
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movermike.com
A lot of people I know say marriage is between a man and a woman. They don't care if gays and lesbians want to live together legally, as in a marriage, just don't call it marriage. Some have chosen "domestic partnership" as a substitute. Now California judges , have overturned the law passed by a vote of the people that banned gay marriage, saying in the 4-3 decision Thursday, "that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage in an opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George.
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blog.beliefnet.com
So says the state Supreme Court, in a 4-3 ruling. This is huge, really huge. California is the largest state.
I don't have much to say about this that I haven't already said many times before. The battle for cultural conservatives has been lost. It was lost when the Republican Congress repeatedly failed to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment -- which John McCain opposed, note well, and which George W.
Found 50 days, 15 hours, 24 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
dennyburk.com
Here's a link to the California Supreme Court's decision to overturn the statewide ban on gay "marriage." Here's the report from the Associated Press :
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry.
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drfoureyes.blogspot.com
This is happy news indeed!
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meatofthematter.wordpress.com
The Supreme Court overturned California's ban on gay marriage . So Californian gays may now become legally married (again).
Unless I"m mixing up my legislation, this is a bitch-slap to the Terminator, who vetoed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage a few years ago. I blogged about it here .
It's not legal in every state (yet) but the legal precedence has clearly been shown.
Good times.
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msoc.blogspot.com
California Supreme Court overturns Gay Marriage Ban , paving the way for California to become the second state that allows same-sex marriage, after Massachusetts.
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opine-editorials.blogspot.com
Not the ruling anyone expected . On the whole this is a very dangerous precedent for the institution of marriage. Up until today no other court was willing to embrace the full reasoning of Massachusetts. This had set a series of legal decision in Washington, New York, and other State Supreme Courts denoting a elite legal trend of opinion away from this spurious reasoning. On the upside this should only help the effort to finally amend the California constitution to fully protect marriage . This will also have the expected affect of putting the issue same-sex "marriage" into the 08 presidential campaign as the central social issue.
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yikes101.blogspot.com
The Associate Press reports :
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belowthebeltway.com
Andrew Sullivan compares this to California's first-in-the-nation status in striking down miscegenation laws. Though I think that it will take the rest of America a little bit longer to make it's way into the 21st Century.
The full opinion is here, but this is the part that matters:
We . . .
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blogrevolution.com
State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry
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inductivist.blogspot.com
Moral minimalism is poison: Today, we see that the California State Supreme Court doesn't give a fig about what the people of California want.
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movermike.powerblogs.com
A lot of people I know say marriage is between a man and a woman. They don't care if gays and lesbians want to live together legally, as in a marriage, just don't call it marriage. Some have chosen "domestic partnership" as a substitute. Now California judges , have overturned the law passed by a vote of the people that banned gay marriage, saying in the 4-3 decision Thursday, "that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage in an opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George.
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moderateleft.com
California embraces equality and justice, legalizes gay marriage .
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marvinlindsay.typepad.com
Gay, Catholic, conservative Andrew Sullivan is the go-to blogger today: Ed Harrington, the general manager of the city's Public Utilities Commission, was one of the staff members in the mayor's office shortly after the decision was released. Harrington has lived with his partner for 35 years and in 2004 Harrington married about 40 same-sex couples.
"You wait for this your whole life," said Harrington, who said he planned to call his partner and say, "I love you. What more do you say on a day like this?
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meloukhia.net
As Andrew Sullivan pointed out in The Daily Dish , if thousands of same-sex couples marry in California between 15 June (when the decision takes effect) and November, any proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage would result in the simultaneous annulment of thousands of marriages. For those who claim to value the sanctity of marriage, I hope this creates room for pause; I imagine that straights would be pretty infuriated if their marriages were annulled at the polls, don't you think?
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cato-at-liberty.org
As many expected, the California Supreme Court has overturned that state's ban on gay marriage . So many expected it, in fact, that opponents have already submitted more than a million signatures through California's initiative process to put an anti-gay-marriage amendment on the ballot this fall.
I wonder if opponents of gay marriage in California will rely on the same arguments as did the Washington Supreme Court ?
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popandpolitics.com
News just broke that the California Supreme Court has overturned the ban on gay marriage that they initially enforced in 2004 after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gave the green light, opening a month-long window when thousands of gay couples traveled to the Bay Area to get hitched.
The Supreme Court basically said that Newsom couldn't take matters into his own hands, and neither could they until the lower courts acted first. Fast-forward to 2008, and the Supreme Court finally declares "that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage in an opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George," according to the New York Times.
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inchatatime.blogspot.com
L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa says he will officiate at same-sex weddings
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teaheepeehee.wordpress.com
From the New York Times ….
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deeproastedflavor.blogspot.com
California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
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matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com
15 May 2008 01:57 pm
California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban . This will presumably create political headaches for liberals -- John McCain will be able to argue with some plausibility that judges appointed by Barack Obama are likely to make similar rulings (not that there's anything wrong with that, but the voters may feel otherwise) -- but it's a victory for justice.
The smart set thing to do at this point is, I assume, to argue that this is a good outcome but the process is bad.
Found 50 days, 15 hours, 23 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
yikes101.wordpress.com
The Associate Press reports :
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry.
This is EXCELLENT news!
Found 50 days, 15 hours, 23 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
knowitall.wordpress.com
In striking down the ban, the court said, "In contrast to earlier times, our state now recognizes that an individual's capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual's sexual orientation, and, more generally, that an individual's sexual orientation -- like a person's race or gender -- does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights."
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episcopalifem.wordpress.com
California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
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