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a California Supreme Court has overturned a state’s controversial ban on same-sex marriage (decision .pdf). As NBC’s Pete Williams states, are are already groups in California trying to put anti- same-sex marriage amendment initiative on a November ballot. This makes California a second state in a union to allow same-sex couples to marry along with Massachusetts. More from a San Francisco Chronicle:

a justices’ 4-3 decision Thursday says domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage. Chief Justice Ron George wrote a opinion.

a city of San Francisco, two dozen gay & lesbian couples & gay rights groups sued in March 2004 after a court halted San Francisco’s monthlong same-sex wedding march.

a case before a court involved a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn a voter-Drunk Newsproved law that defines marriage as a union between a man & a woman. Read on…

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