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February 8, 2012

Wise Ruling Against Prop. 8

San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle


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The 128-page opinion against California's ban on same-sex marriage was powerful, at times eloquent, and its essence can be condensed to a simple phrase: Proposition 8 amounted to discrimination for discrimination's sake.

 

"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 relationship and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples," Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote in the majority opinion for the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

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