OREGON HIGH COURT HISTORY FAVORS GAY MARRIAGE: From The Oregonian

...The chief lawyers for the Oregon Legislature and Multnomah County have come to roughly the same conclusion: Oregon almost certainly will become the third state in the country to provide constitutional equal protection to gays and lesbians.

Yet, these opinions are not based on a series of court rulings that, over time, seem to point to an inevitable conclusion. Instead, Myers relied heavily on a single state Supreme Court case, which is more than two decades old and addressed gender, not sexual orientation.

So how is it that in less than two weeks Oregon's top government lawyers all agree on such a dramatic result despite a stunning lack of case law to back them up?

A broader view of the Oregon Supreme Court provides the answer, experts say. In the past 25 years, the state's highest court has repeatedly interpreted the constitution to provide far greater rights than the federal Constitution does.

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