Meddling in Gay Marriage: Washington Post editorial

BESTOWING THE full rights and obligations of marriage on all loving, committed relationships -- whether heterosexual or homosexual -- is a matter of social and political justice. There should be no room in this country for the kind of discrimination that would relegate same-sex couples to second-class status. The California Supreme Court, which last week struck down that state's prohibition against same-sex marriage, correctly recognized that government bears the highest burden if it decides to treat differently the relationships between opposite-sex and same-sex couples.

Yet the flawed court decision could trigger serious political backlash because the outcome was produced not by the state's voters but by a 4 to 3 majority of judges.

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