Does the California gay marriage ruling mean it’s time to reconsider ‘civil partnership’ terminology in the UK?
“Limiting the designation of marriage to a union ‘between a man and a woman’ is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute,” said California Chief Justice Ron George in his written opinion yesterday, as California’s top court ruled a state law banning marriage between same-sex couples as unconstitutional.
The state’s Supreme Court said the “right to form a family relationship” applied to all Californians regardless of sexuality. Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger previously vetoed laws passed by the state legislature to legalise gay marriage not once, but twice.
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