The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the decision of the
lower court which held that Proposition 8, California's voter-approved
ban on same-sex marriages, violates the Equal Protection Amendment of
the United States Constitution. The Ninth Circuit declared that the
state had no legitimate justification for the ban, which it said "serves
no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and
human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially
reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of
opposite-sex couples."
