California Proposition 8 same-sex-marriage ban ruled unconstitutional
By a vote of 2 to 1, the panel overturned the measure, which in 2008 amended the state’s Constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman.
“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples,” U.S. Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote. “The Constitution simply does not allow for laws of this sort.”
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