In a victory for couples either unwilling or unable to marry in the state of California, on Tuesday the California Supreme Court in a unanimous 6-0 ruling (Janice Rogers Brown's seat is still vacant) said that private businesses must treat married couples and registered domestic partnerships equivalently. The 45-page decision came in a case resulting in a lesbian couple who had registered as domestic partners under California's far-reaching Domestic Partnership Act but had been denied a family membership at an exclusive (and expensive) country club in San Diego.
It's not clear what impact this ruling will have on pending cases before the Court arguing for the legalization of same-sex marriage in the State of California or the attempt by heterosexual supremacists to repeal the domestic partnership law and prevent the enactment of same-sex marriage in the future.
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ReplyDeleteThis is great news for all the Country Club San Diego as well. :)