CAL judge approves Domestic Partners

Sacramento Superior Court Judge Loren E. McMaster
upholds revised California domestic partnership law;
which should take effect on 1 January 2005.

Homophobes say this DP law is really marriage in disguise.

Judge says DP isn't marriage;
the two relationships are "inherently distinct".

This decision will be appealed, of course.
Such a major question can't be settled at any level lower than
the California Supreme Court
(or, perhaps, the U.S. Supreme Court?).


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[ For AP report, please see:


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/09/08/state2219EDT0203.DTL ]


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Comment by TBL:
The new DP law is, in my queer opinion (IMQO),
really "Civil Union by another name".
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