"In California, advocates of traditional family values are incensed that an appeals court has determined that a new state law giving same-sex domestic "partners" the same rights as married couples does not violate the state's Defense of Marriage Initiative, which passed overwhelmingly five years ago."
"In March 2000, 61 percent of voters in the Golden State approved Proposition 22, which states that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." But on Monday (April 4), the California Court of Appeal, Third District, handed down a 26-page ruling upholding a lower-court decision that stated a new domestic partner law did not violate that measure. The new law bestows upon registered domestic partners "the same rights, protections, benefits, responsibilities, obligations, and duties" as those given to married individuals."

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