First it was Bill Clinton in the Oval Office.
Now it's 18000 couples in California.
The position in the argument engages with the full faith and credit clause of the federal constitution as well as the 14th amendment and the defense of marriage act.
I get the impression that Starr wants to argue all this in front of SCOTUS.
But that won't happen until this gets through the state level.
Strangely enough, as a direct result of the passage of proposition 8 a self-consistent interpretation of the current law in California is that the state cannot recognize marriage at all. The position Starr took today is consistent with that interpretation.
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