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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In a much-anticipated ruling issued Thursday, the California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional.
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California's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
Several gay and lesbian couples, along with the city of San Francisco and gay rights groups, sued to overturn state laws allowing only marriages between a man and a woman.
With the ruling, California becomes the second state to allow same-sex couples to legally wed. Massachusetts adopted the practice in 2004, and couples don't need to be state residents to wed there.
Vermont, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Connecticut permit civil unions, while California has a domestic-partner registration law. More than a dozen other states give gay couples some legal rights.
Seven other jurisdictions around the world have legalized same-sex marriage: Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, South Africa and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec.
San Francisco officials in 2004 allowed same-sex couples in the city to wed, prompting a flood of applicants crowding the city hall clerk's office. The first couple to wed then was 80-year-old Phyllis Lyon and 83-year-old Dorothy Martin, lovers for 50 years.
"We have a right just like anyone else to get married to the person we want to get married to," Lyon said at the time.
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One issue before the justices was whether San Francisco's laws carried legal weight when the rest of the state banned same-sex marriages. Gay rights advocates argued the state was violating their civil rights by limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. The state law in question is the Defense of Marriage Act, Proposition 22.
Oral arguments in the case in March lasted more than three hours, a sign of the political and legal issues at stake. Six cases were consolidated.
Same-sex marriages that were nullified by the law remain nullified, CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin said.
Groups saying they were promoting a pro-family agenda had vowed to fight a statewide law allowing same-sex marriage.
"The government should promote and encourage strong families," said Glen Lavy of the Alliance Defense Fund. "The voters realize that defining marriage as one man and one woman is important because the government should not, by design, deny a child both a mother and father."
An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is likely. The federal high court has never addressed the question of same-sex marriage
California is awesome, so suck it rest of america!
So yeah, get married and stop sleeping around you sluts.
Seriously, this is awesome news. I hope. At the very least, we just gave legal precedent to other states trying to overturn the ban on gay marriage.
Also, this thread is probably going to go down in flames, heh heh, real quick.
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But just think how clean everything will be.
I thought you were dating Viv?
Janson, how many women are you seeing?
man I am so down to get someone on the forums a gay green card
I am gonna get smashed at my first gay wedding 8-)
Ah oh ho ho.
hey can I come
I don't know what a civil partnership is, but it's probably the same thing as a civil union, which we already have in some states. Civil unions are close to marriage, but are not marriage by a long shot.
wouldnt it be rainbow colored
3 Million.
yeah just don't mention to my grand-parents that it is a gay wedding
Civil Partnership in the UK is marriage in all but name. It's not called marriage in the hope that God won't notice the vileness.
totally liked it before it was cool
Is everyone doing this man-kissing now?
Well next we're pushing to legislate threesomes :winky:
what a brave stance
hey sailor
Trying to remember the bad things I've done this week
if you guys want gays eatin' your children and scarin' away your salmon that's your problem
i for one will not stand for it
uh, actually...
youll have the mormon vote
I blame Curly_Brace for introducing me to the game. Now I'm tinkering with maps and scripts and oh god help me please.
Well, at least they sleep for six months of the year.