Firms must treat domestic partners like married pairs, top state court says

The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 08/02/2005 | Bob Egelko

[Craig DeLuz]

California businesses must treat same-sex domestic partners the same as married couples, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday in the case of a golf club that denied a family membership to a lesbian couple.

The unanimous ruling was the court's first on the state's domestic partner law, which took effect this year and granted to registered partners most of the rights of spouses under state law.

[Craig DeLuz]

DO DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS EQUATE TO SAME-SEX MARRAIGE? COURTS ARE INCONSISTENT!

The California Supreme Court stated that domestic partners must be treated the same as married spouses because as California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno stated "the Legislature has granted legal recognition comparable to marriage.''

But doesn’t that mean that the Legislature violated the state constitution by amending Prop. 22? There is a glaring inconsistency in the California court system when it comes to the issue of whether domestic partnerships laws have made them significantly similar to marriage.

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[Fierce Allegiance]

So if 2 not-necessarily-gay guys share an apartment, 1 works for the state, etc, the other is "entitled" to free healthcare & all the other expensive benefits?

[Thrusher]

The slippery slope continues to slide...

[Obadiah]

What they CANNOT obtain through the ballot box, or through public consent, they conspire to obtain through activist judges. Let me guess, the 9th circuit court will uphold this and it will be on to the SC for yet another battle that should never be.

[VRWCmember]

Let me guess, the 9th circuit court will uphold this and it will be on to the SC for yet another battle that should never be.

Not likely, it is a state law that is at issue here. There is no federal question.

[JimSEA]

The economic impact is only just beginning. True motives are often closer to the pocketbook than the heart.

[Republicus2001]

heh, watch for the twenty-something shared bachelor pads suddenly turn into "gay" households

what about if you have three roomates? Who's the wife?

[Republicus2001]

you read my mind - California govt workers ---

[Fierce Allegiance]

The article says it has to be same sex couples. Where is the legal commitment (Hence the real push for gay marriage). Why not extend it to normal couples (1 man and 1 woman). Hell why not extend it to man/dog or woman/donkey relationships. They are just as natural as a man/man couple.

[Republicus2001]

sure, why not a gay man and a lesbian woman? she could just get on top

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

You fotrgot to mention the strap on!

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

The law firm I work at here in NJ, has this policy. It also applies to heterosexual couples that are living together.

[Albion Wilde]

I say, cede the entire 9th circuit to the Mexican separatist movement and be done with the majority of our constitutional challenges and nutcase educational theories with one swoop.