Looks like the California Supreme Court may have teed up exactly an idea I’ve kicked around for years: getting the State out of the “marriage” business altogether. I’d missed this par from the majority opinion on my first scan (well, it’s 200 pages long), as spotted by Chris Crain, via Andrew Sullivan:
Even though marriage becomes [...]
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By a one-vote majority, the California Supreme Court has struck down the state’s marriage law, to take effect in 30 days. Read on for some analysis and what’s likely to happen in the effort to overturn it this November…
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This column first appeared in the Sunday Tribune on 4 November 2007.
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