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Article: Gay marriage ruling galvanizes both sides; Decision by a California court allowing gay unions reflects a judiciary moving in one direction and legislatures in another.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 16, 2005
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Byline: Alexandra Marks Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK -- A California court's ruling that gay marriage is constitutional in the state has given new fodder to both sides waging one of the nation's most complex and emotional debates.
For supporters of gay marriage, the decision is a boost as they press their cause in other states. Opponents of gay marriage, meanwhile, have vowed to appeal this and other rulings, while also planning to take their case to state legislatures.
Indeed right now, the nation's courts and the legislatures, in general, have been deciding the legitimacy of gay marriage on opposite tracks. The ...