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Calif. Marriage May Be Mirage for Gay Couples

Posted Jun 15, 08 6:11 PM CDT in Opinion,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Gay couples should exchange vows warily in California this week, Joe Matthews writes in the Washington Post. “California—with its dysfunctional politics and government—may hurt the cause of same-sex marriage,” he warns. An upcoming state ballot on gay marriage could cast the issue into limbo for years, and leave couples in "an expensive, time-consuming quagmire—gay marriage's Vietnam."

Gay couples who marry this week in California won't have the "same freedoms as heterosexual married couples in California. That's because federal law provides legal recognition only to marriages between a man and a woman. If there's ever going to be true marriage equality in California, the fight that counts most won't take place in Sacramento. For that fight, the battleground is Washington."

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Be careful what you ask for, Joe Matthews warns same-sex couples in the Los Angeles Times.   (Getty Images)
In his majority opinion, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George cited "the right of an individual and a couple to have their own official family relationship accorded respect and dignity...   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
This week, Phyllis Lyon will wed her partner of more than 5 decades. "It means a great deal that we can get a license like anyone else," she said.   (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Same-sex couples in California will be able to wed starting this week after the state Supreme Court overturned the ban on gay marriage.   (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
%u201CCalifornia, with its dysfunctional politics and government, may hurt the cause of same-sex marriage,%u201D Joe Matthews writes in the LA Times.   (Getty Images)
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