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Jun. 4, 2008
'Marriage' Decision a Satisfying Step in Long Journey to Equality
Since its first gay-related ruling in 1951, the state high court has been inching its way toward the strict scrutiny standard in cases of discrimination based on sexual orientation. - Forum Column
By Stan Yogi
This article appears on Page 6
Sixty years after its landmark 1948 decision, Perez v. Sharp, striking the state's anti-miscegenation law, the California Supreme Court recently ruled in In re Marriage Cases not only that laws barring same-sex marriage are unconstitutional but that unequal treatment of lesbians and gay men by the government will now be subject to the most ri...
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