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1. A Clear and Deliberate Step: Chapter 721 Brings Domestic Partnerships Closer to Marriage.

Author

Starr, Hunter

Subjects
*APPELLATE courts, *CIVIL rights, *DOMESTIC partner benefits, *GAY rights, *SAME-sex marriage, *LEGAL judgments, KOEBKE v. Bernardo Heights Country Club (Supreme Court case)
Abstract

The article discusses on the dispute right of same sex marriage and domestic partnership. It provides information that California voters are trying to add a new section in the California Family Court, to define marriage only for opposite sex couples. It reveals that this action is totally against to civil rights to gay and lesbian couples and their families. It emphasizes on constitutional guarantees and the strength, benefits of domestic partnerships. It also discusses the court case Koebke v. Bernardo Heights Country Club prosecuted in the California Supreme Court in which Country Club get failed to extend the same rights and privileges to a same sex couple.

Published
2012

2. The Courts and Public Discourse: The Case of Gay Marriage.

Author

Machacek, David W. and Fulco, Adrienne

Subjects
*LEGAL judgments, *GAY rights, *SAME-sex marriage, *CIVIL rights, *CIVIL procedure
Abstract

Discusses the impact of several court decisions on the public debate about gay rights and gay marriage in the U.S. in 2004. Importance of individual rights to exercise moral autonomy to the private matters involving the controversial areas of life such as choice of sexual partner; Analysis of lawsuits including the case of Lawrence versus Texas; Role of courts in the development of legislation about anti-discrimination claims based on sexual identity.

Published
2004
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3. Mass Appeal.

Subjects
*SAME-sex marriage, *LEGAL judgments, *CIVIL rights, *GAY rights, *SEXUAL orientation, *REPRODUCTION
Abstract

Comments on legal arguments behind the case of Goodridge, et al. v. Department of Public Health, in which the Massachusetts Supreme Court found that denying gay citizens the right to marry was a violation of the state's constitution. Argument that homosexuals are not merely heterosexuals in disguise, and that sexual orientation is hardwired; Argument that inability to procreate is no basis for denying a couple the right to marry; Acknowledgement that the freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness, and the refusal of it is a denial of a basic human right; Claim that there will be no negative social effects caused by gay marriage.

Published
2003

4. Give and Take: The Elimination of State Sodomy Laws and the Introduction of Anti-Same Sex Marriage Laws.

Author

Barclay, Scott and Fisher, Shauna

Subjects
*SODOMY, *STATE laws, *SAME-sex marriage, *GAY rights, *LEGAL judgments, *CIVIL rights
Abstract

Between 1996 and 2001, a number of states appeared to engage in a direct political trade-off between the elimination of their existing state sodomy law and the simultaneous introduction of a state anti-same sex marriage statute. Using legislative reports, newspaper accounts, court cases, and regression models of pooled time series data from the 50 states, we consider state actions on these two issues in the period 1970 to 2001. We propose that such a trade-off attempted to reconcile the growing power of lesbian and gay rights' interest groups as well as the increasing support for the elimination of state sodomy laws manifested by changing state demographics with more ambiguous national public opinion on same sex marriage. In addition, we consider how the theoretical divergence created by the separation of issues of conjugality and romantic relationships inherent in the 1986 US Supreme Court case of Bowers v Hardwick (in contrast with coterminous state court decisions) endorsed the subsequent divergence apparent in the state actions on these two issues. Finally, we postulate on the apparent impact of the recent Lawrence decision for the continuation of this division. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2004

5. Another Thirty Years War in the making?

Subjects
*SAME-sex marriage, *GAY rights, *CONSERVATISM, *CIVIL rights, *LEGAL judgments, *ACTIVISTS
Abstract

This article focuses on the legalization of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts and the impending battle between gay activists and social conservatives. Seldom in recent times has a clerical act inspired so much jubilation. One second past midnight on May 17th, gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts, and same-sex couples began to fill out marriage licence applications in Cambridge City Hall, specially opened for the occasion. War is an appropriate metaphor. Supporters, pointing out that May 17th was the 50th anniversary of Brown v Board of Education, claim the ceremonies in Massachusetts mark the biggest advance in civil rights since racial segregation was abolished. Conservatives, who see "the end of western civilisation" in the marriages, look back to 1973 and another Supreme Court ruling: Roe v Wade, which legalised abortion and started a culture war that has lasted for 30 years. Certainly, the full legalisation of gay marriage in Massachusetts took many liberal activists by surprise. Many assumed Vermont's civil unions (non-marriages with most of the legal advantages) would be the best they could get. The right's reaction was less militant than might have been expected. Yet the counterattack is only just around the corner and may precipitate years of conflict. Only a handful of liberal states, including Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York, have suggested they might honour same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts.

Published
2004

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