big rights news

[owlmoose]

Somehow I missed this yesterday, until I saw a headline on the paper outside the grocery store: the California State Supreme Court granted equal rights to same-sex parents.

Not only does the ruling uphold the rights laid out in CA's domestic partnership law, it's retroactive, covering couples who had or adopted children before the law was passed in January. I expect there are many families breathing easier in my state today. The ruling doesn't touch marriage; that's a separate case, and it's working it's way through the system. But I think this is a good sign for that issue as well. We can only hope. Sometimes I love this state.

Of course, the whole thing could be derailed if the evil propositions in the pipeline for the 2006 elections make their way into law. Sometimes I hate this state.

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J

[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

Clifornia and (sometimes) Massachusetts often give me hope for this sad country. I saw a picture illustrating the news story to which you refer. It showed the plaintiff and her attorney hugging. It gave me a pleasant warm feeling that justice had prevailed in one case in one state at least.

[anzubird.livejournal.com]

I actually found the whole thing a bit dispiriting actually. Not the idea of granting equal rights to gay parents, but the fact that someone would actually withdraw support from a partner and two small children that they had created together simply because there is no law requiring them to provide that support.
This is not a decision that came about because two people wanted to be together and take care of children, but because one of them didn't want to. That is a horrible thing.