Thursday 8/12/2004
Court Upholds California Marriage Law

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California’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s marriage law today and invalidated more than 4,000 marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples in San Francisco. The ruling was a rebuke to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who ordered the city to begin issuing licenses to homosexual couples while the Massachusetts Legislature was debating the merits of a state constitutional amendment protecting marriage as the union of one man and one woman. CWA’s Director of State Legislative Relations, Michael Bowman, has more on this great victory.

Click here to read the court’s opinion.

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