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4 August 2010 at 7:44:42 PM
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Christian Science Monitor

Walker wrote that the idea of restricting marriage to one man and one woman was “an artifact of a foregone notion that men and women fulfill different roles in civic life.”

Rather than advancing a state interest, the judge said, Proposition 8 harms the state’s interest in equality. “It mandates that men and women be treated differently based only on antiquated and discredited notions of gender

I feel very much at peace after reading that. All's right with the world. Let's hope when this makes it to the SCOTUS that they also uphold fundamental rights.


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