What happened to Mr. Anders and his partner violates California law and is clearly discriminatory,It wasn't before the Wilsonegger gang took office and signed the legislation that empowers the ACLU.
But according to the initiative passed by the voters of California, isn't marriage defined as only being between one man and one woman? Since under California law these two aren't allowed to marry, how is it discrimination to disallow them from using a ticket that is only avaiable to spouses, dependent children, or other airline employees? A non-married heterosexual couple would also be denied that ticket.
Prop 22 that defined marriage as between a man and a woman was statute and amended the family code; it wasn't a constitutional amendment (BIG mistake!)
I'd have to track back through the various bills to remember the ins and outs. But basically, between AB 205 and AB 1400, it pretty much hands all of the rights of married people to those registering as domestic partners. I believe AB 1400 equates "spouse" to "domestic partner" so that anything short of pure "equality" is discrimination. Don't quote me on that as the specifics are fuzzy. My general conclusion after seeing all of the Pro-GLBT legislation signed this year, combined with AB 205, was that the homosexual lobby was successful in achieving Homosexual Marriage in all but name.