Forum (Forum & Focus)
Mar. 28, 2009
Words Matter
In upholding voters' unfettered power to enact discriminatory measures like Proposition 8, the Supreme Court may go further and trivialize the right to equality it so powerfully affirmed.
FORUM COLUMN
By Jackie Goldberg Last May, the California Supreme Court's powerful and eloquent In re Marriage Cases decision explained in ways no previous court had why restricting the familiar, esteemed title and status of marriage to heterosexual couples - and relegating lesbian and gay couples to the obviously inferior status of domestic partnership - is inherently unequal and demeaning. Even as the proud author of the domestic partner statute ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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