Why the California Supreme Court did more than legalize gay marriage. On Thursday, by a 4-3 vote of the state Supreme Court, California followed Massachusetts and became the second state in which same-sex couples can tie the knot as tightly as straight couples can. Rational basis review is so lenient ...
Homosexuality, polygamy, and incest.
slate.comFound 50 days, 3 hours, 13 minutes, and 17 seconds agoFree To Be You and You and MeHomosexuality, polygamy, and incest. Time for a liberal state supreme court to strike down a law against gay marriage and piss people off. Most voters (including me) now support marriage or civil unions for same-sex couples, and the percentage favoring marriage has increased ...
boingboing.net
Yesterday, the California Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that same-sex marriage is legal, on the basis of a strict-scrutiny analysis of the Constitution. This will make it essentially impossible for California to keep any kind of anti-gay-marriage laws on its books, and could lead to other states abolishing their laws discriminating against gay marriage.
Damn right! I foresee a lot of happy marriages by Californians who are finally free to marry anyone they damned well please, without the government (or their bigoted neighbors) being able to stop 'em.
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me and Chelsie Rae 5.14.08
At least too much to say right now. I'm heading back into the studio to direct three more "love stories" for Playgirl tomorrow, and then I'll tell you more. A lot more.
Until then, watch me - and my friends - on Man and Wife TV.
And check out my new crush, Chelsie Rae . I directed a scene with her and Jack Venice yesterday and let me just say she's magically delicious when it comes to both her personality and her hotness.
Also congrats to California..where one can be happy and gay and together, legally, until death do them part.
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hammhawk.wordpress.com
I'm sure the DavidDukes of the world are threatened by this, but I was happy to see that CA just overturned a same-sex marriage ban. I'm sure this isn't the end of the issue, but it's a good step. This after last night we celebrated Ron & Tim's 29th year together. Congrats, fellas.
UPDATE: I feel like an idiot for not being more skeptical about the timing of the ruling, which once again may prove to be lethal to the Dems. As much as I wish we could just get to full equality, perhaps we can lose the battle and win the war if the 3 candidates are in agreement here.
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simplyfredsmith.blogspot.com
So California's Supreme Court gave the OK for gay marriage . Muy cool.
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boingboing.hexten.net
Yesterday, the California Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that same-sex marriage is legal, on the basis of a strict-scrutiny analysis of the Constitution. This will make it essentially impossible for California to keep any kind of anti-gay-marriage laws on its books, and could lead to other states abolishing their laws discriminating against gay marriage.
Damn right! I foresee a lot of happy marriages by Californians who are finally free to marry anyone they damned well please, without the government (or their bigoted neighbors) being able to stop 'em.
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ifoughtthelaw.cementhorizon.com
So, I'll point you to two faster movers who are probably smarter than I am anyway. First, Kenji Yoshino , who my co-clerk often gushed about last year, summed up the majority decision thusly in Slate :
Writing for the California high court, Chief Justice Ronald M. George first found that the exclusion of gays from marriage violated their fundamental right to marry, thereby drawing strict scrutiny from the court.
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Link: Slate Magazine
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politikditto.blogspot.com
Slate :
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francislholland.blogspot.com
This suggests that other courts may borrow its strict scrutiny standard, under which most bans on same-sex marriage would fall. Even if no other court adopts today's reasoning, the mere fact that millions can marry in the Golden State will have its own effects. California is the most populous state in the nation, and one of the top ten economies in the world (alongside nations like Canada and Italy). Because of its cultural, political, and economic influence, what happens in California does not stay in California.
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blog.cruachan.ca
Well, isn't that refreshing? California's Supreme Court has decided that gays and lesbians aren't so scary after all.
Yesterday, they struck down a state law banning gay and lesbian marriage in the state as contravening the State Constitution's protected right to form a family relationship:
In a 4-3 120-page ruling issue, the justices wrote that "responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual's sexual orientation."
"We therefore conclude that in view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship, the California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples," Chief Justice Ronald George wrote for the majority.
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sexinthepublicsquare.org
With a one-vote majority, California's Supreme Court overturned a law banning same-sex marriage yesterday ( PDF of decision ). The case is a consolidation of appeals to the same court's ruling in 2004 that San Francisco had illegally granted marriage licenses to same sex couples. In that decision they had expressly stated that they were not ruling on the constitutionality of the law, but only one whether or not the law had been broken. In this case they examine the constitutionality of the law and find that the law violates basic constitutional rights:
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