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News Analysis: With Same-Sex Marriage, a Court Takes on the People’s Voice

 
Opponents of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, say it is a major revision of the state’s Constitution, not an amendment. The state supreme court will have to decide. > (link)

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