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Mar. 18, 2009

Will Integrity Prevail?

The state Supereme Court will significantly compromise its integrity if it decides that same-sex couples aren't allowed to marry.

FORUM COLUMN

By Deborah H. Wald

The most painful part of the oral arguments on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, heard by our Supreme Court on March 5, came during the back-and-forth between the justices and Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, during his rebuttal argument.

Chief Justice Ronald George asked Minter to explain why it wasn't fair to characterize Prop. 8 as "eliminating the designati...

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