{"id":12388,"date":"2008-05-15T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T22:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/05\/15\/equal-protection-under-the-law-in-california.html"},"modified":"2008-05-15T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T22:56:31","slug":"equal_protection_under_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/equal_protection_under_th.html","title":{"rendered":"Equal Protection Under the Law in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bravo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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California’s top court has ruled that a state law banning marriage between same-sex couples is unconstitutional.The state’s Supreme Court said the “right to form a family relationship” applied to all Californians regardless of sexuality.<\/p>\n

[…] The seven-judge panel voted 4-3 in favour of the plaintiffs who argued that the 2000 law was discriminatory. “Limiting the designation of marriage to a union ‘between a man and a woman’ is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute,” California Chief Justice Ron George said in the written opinion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Opponents are already threatening to put in a constitutional measure to ban it again. Why I’m still not clear on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bravo. California’s top court has ruled that a state law banning marriage between same-sex couples is unconstitutional.The state’s Supreme Court said the “right to form a family relationship” applied to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-stuff","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12385,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/more_on_the_california_ga.html","url_meta":{"origin":12388,"position":0},"title":"More on the California gay marriage ruling","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-May-08 8:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"Couple of good articles in the LA Times about the state supreme court decision yesterday that overturned the legal ban on gay marriage. 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