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A judge ruled Monday that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, saying the state could no longer justify limiting marriage to a man and a woman.
posted by Sean @ 3/14/2005 04:34:00 PM
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4 Comments:
Privatize marriage.
We can't, without a far-reaching rework of the tax code, estate law and death benefits accrual, child support and child custody regulations, etc.
Civil rights are a bitch that way.
I hear you, Tracy, but Shanan is right. Whether or not the gov't should be involved in marriage isn't the point. Right now they are, and so they should have to grant the same priveleges and rights to all without discriminating along gender/race/religious lines. [However, I also think we need to steer the debate to the higher level issue of whether or not there should be state-sanctioned marriage. In my mind, that's really the only way we're ever going to get this resolved.]
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