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When California voters quashed the state's court-ordered experiment with same-sex marriage in 2008, gay advocates vowed to fight on. Their latest battleground: a San Francisco courtroom, where a judge will weigh in on the controversial Proposition 8--and hand down the first federal ruling on whether the U.S. Constitution forbids state bans on same-sex marriage...
...California's law is found to violate the 14th Amendment (which guarantees due process and equal protection), it could threaten anti-gay-marriage statutes well beyond the Golden State. Since November, laws supporting same-sex unions have passed in Washington, D.C., but have been defeated in Maine, New Jersey and New York. Whichever way the decision goes, an eventual appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is a virtual certainty...
...against gay marriage but favors civil unions. In 2001, Brown called then state Senator Cheryl Jacques' decision to have children with her female partner as "not normal" and referred to her parenting as "alleged family responsibilities." He later apologized...
...Brown visited King Philip High School to discuss the topic of gay-marriage legislation. Students had posted insulting comments about Brown and his family on Facebook. At the meeting, Brown read the profanity-laced comments aloud and identified some of the students who wrote them...
State legislatures passed more than 40,000 new laws last year, many of which went into effect on Jan. 1. While some were significant enough to make headlines at the time (like New Hampshire's legalization of gay marriage in June), others sneaked onto the books without much notice at all (Arkansas now prohibits the sale of toy guns that look real--unless they're of the BB, paintball or pellet variety). With the New Year, Illinois became the 19th state to outlaw texting while driving; North Carolina, a major tobacco-producing state, outlawed smoking in restaurants and bars...