Federal Judge Rejects Calif. Marriage Definition
- Lawrence Jones - Christian Post Reporter
- Aug 5, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge has ruled against California’s voter-approved marriage definition in a landmark decision that brings the gay marriage debate one step closer to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Nearly seven months after the battle over California’s Proposition 8 reached the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker determined that people of the same sex do have the right to marry and that the decision of the majority to define marriage as the union between a man and a woman violates that right.
"Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and lesbians," the judge wrote in the 136-page ruling released Wednesday.
"The evidence shows conclusively that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite sex couples," he added, effectively overturning Prop. 8.
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