Gay marriage: Will CA protect nstutn?- CalMatters

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California voters will be asked to affirm gay marriage rights on the 2024 ballot followg Prop. 8 ncerns about the state nstutn.

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THE CONSTUTNAL ARGUMENT FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Two lawmakers want voters to amend the California nstutn to protect gay marriage rights om the U.S. Supreme Court. * constitution on gay marriage *

Do the Uned Stat ernment have the nstutnal thory to legalize gay marriage?

[See a llectn of polil rtoons on gay marriage.

WILL CALIFORNIA PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE S NSTUTN?

] If the legalizatn of gay marriage were acplished by statute, Congrs uld nceivably rely on s power to regulate merce. It is more likely that gay marriage would be mandated by the Court's own terpretatns of the 14th Amendment. In a 2003 se that validated crimal penalti on homosexual sodomy, Jtice Anton Slia's bter dissent argued that the Court was settg the stage for exactly this rult.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

[Vote now: Should gay marriage be legal natnwi? Gay marriage is a nstutnal right, Supreme…. Gay upl’ fundamental right to marry is protected by the due procs and equal protectn cls of the 14th Amendment, Jtice Anthony M.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

“It means gays and lbians for the state to lock them out of a central stutn of the natn’s society, ” Kennedy wrote.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

The same dynamic has occurred the natn’s experienc wh the rights of gays and lbians, Kennedy said, referrg to his own opns strikg down a crimal ban on homosexual sodomy, overturng a state effort to bar lol protectns for gays, and validatg a feral law barrg feral benefs for married gay upl. Above the Law not that two of Kennedy’s prr gay-rights cisns were issued on June 26, the same date of today’s cisn fdg a nstutnal right for gays to marry.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR.

Roberts said the arguments on behalf of gay marriage have “unniable appeal” but the Constutn do not pel stat to perm such marriag. Texas: “The Texas statute mak homosexuals unequal the ey of the law by makg particular nduct—and only that nduct—subject to crimal sanctn...

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

" This law applied to heterosexual and homosexual nduct, but the Court reviewed specifilly the ntext of homosexual nduct.

It cid that the right to privacy provid by nstutnal due procs did not ver homosexual behavr, even when nsentg adults are volved.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* CONSTITUTION ON GAY MARRIAGE

California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. Voters uld remove next year - CBS Sacramento .

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