A short while ago, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by retired federal Judge Vaughn Walker declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
The decision reads in part:
"We consider whether that amendment violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We conclude that it does."
"Proposition 8 served no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status & human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples."
The emphasis is mine, of course, but this is now part of federal law and judicial review, weighing on all subsequent gay related cases brought at the federal level.
Today’s ruling is of historic importance for the gay rights movement in this country.
Via Towleroad and more from the Los Angeles Times.
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