James Nightshade
2008-05-16 12:25:02
Wicked: “The issue of Gay Marriage it not a social issue, its a financial one.”
The California Supreme Court decision was entirely a social issue, as the text of the decision itself was careful to point out. Since 1999 there has been a Domestic Partnership status in California that conveys all of the legal and financial benefits of marriage (so far as the State of California can grant).
What the Court ruled was that, under the standards of strict scrutiny, the State could not really have legitimate interest in denying the name “marriage” while at the same time granting all of its other benefits.
