California Upholds Gay Marriage Ban
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California Upholds Gay Marriage Ban | CommonDreams.org
But 18,000 Same-Sex Couples Who Married Before Prop 8 Can Retain Rights
The California Supreme Court has upheld Proposition 8 — the controversial ballot question that banned same-sex marriage.
At the same time, the ruling will allow about 18,000 same-sex couples already married, to retain the rights they attained during the brief six-month period that gay marriage was legal in the state.
“There it goes,” said Jim Schnobrich, who married his partner of 27 years in Pasadena, Calif., last September. “We have to keep going.”
Still, the couple, who have two children, aged 12 and 16, said that they are now in a “weird class,” as the ruling preserved their 8-month-old same sex-marriage.
“That’s good news, but the bigger thing is that now we have this weird status that other people can’t have. There is this kind of equality situation where people are maybe thinking we aren’t really married.”
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