New year, new law: California gay couples get rights
At midnight tonight you might be getting messy on margaritas, but California will be granting sweeping marriagelike rights to thousands of gay and lesbian couples. The landmark legislation marks a new twist in the national landscape by bestowing hundreds of spousal duties and privileges on California couples registered as domestic partners and not calling it marriage. "We'll be celebrating it big-time, absolutely," said AB 205 pusher Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg. "It's not marriage," Goldberg said of her bill. "But it provides tremendous protection to kids and couples in same-gender families." It's true for Wendy Hill, her partner of six years, and their new baby Aidyn (shown). Hill says, "What we have is not just a domestic partnership, it's a family."
Sacramento Bee
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