California Supreme Court
Apr. 1, 2009
Should California Exit the Marriage Business?
If the California Supreme Court upholds a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, the justices are still stuck with a major dilemma: How do they reconcile the November voter initiative, which denied marriage to same-sex couples, with their ruling from last year that called that exclusion discrimination? A simple but politically inflammatory solution would be for the state to get out of the marriage business altogether.
Daily Journal Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - If the California Supreme Court upholds a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, as many observers expect it will, the justices are still stuck with a major dilemma. How do they reconcile the November voter initiative, which denied marriage to same-sex couples, with the court's ruling last year that called that exclusion discrimination? In re Marriage Cases, (2008...
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