California's top court overturns gay marriage ban

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by JonoBN41

What I still don't understand is how gay marriage somehow threatens traditional marriage. I mean, I can see how giving voting privileges to blacks and women threatened the power traditionally held by white men (although it was ultimately done), but what difference would it make to any happily married couple if two guys across the street were also married?

I don't think it does. In fact, I can kind of buy the Massachusetts Supreme Court's view that bans on gay marriage can pass the rational basis test. What the California Supreme Court did was take that about a zillion (that's a legal term of art) times further by making laws against homosexuals "suspect classifications" which get strict scrutiny.

(I still don't know whether the wiki was right because the author didn't know that classifications regarding gender don't get strict scrutiny, but rather intermediate scrutiny).

[modorney]

Originally Posted by Kevin

(I still don't know whether the wiki was right because the author didn't know that classifications regarding gender don't get strict scrutiny, but rather intermediate scrutiny).

Kevin, you can join wikipedia and edit the wiki. You have far more knowledge of the law than most of us, and seem to have an objectivity in explaining it.