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by Alexandra Caldwell
A federal judge in California has overturned Proposition 8, in which had passed an amendment that banned gay marriage, even though it had already been made legal in the state. This latest ruling will likely be appealed. Appeals can be nerve-wracking, especially when the standing ruling is already for our side, but if it does go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, it could be in our favor as a nation. If the high justices rule that it is unconstitutional to disallow same-sex couples from marrying, that could potentially be the gay equivalent of Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case that made it unconstitutional to restrict marriages based on race.
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