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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...
Note: Nine states appear twice; they allow civil unions or other rights but prohibit same-sex marriages...
...helps that Europe's liberal laws - 18 European countries allow gay marriage or same-sex civil unions, and gay couples in nine countries can adopt children - have largely normalized perceptions of gays. Christophe Girard, the deputy mayor of Paris, believes the legal framework for gay partnerships has "forced respect." (Girard is in a civil partnership with his partner of 13 years and has two children). "Gays are no longer just seen as partiers, but also as parents," he says. Paris, of course, is not rural France. But even in Barsac, a village of 2,200 people in the country...
Even if Cott’s testimony fails to convince a judge that same-sex marriage restriction is a civil rights issue akin to the miscegenation laws of the early 20th century, supporters of marriage equality such as Marco Chan ’11 have sworn to continue their fight...