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::[[User:Learn together|Learn together]], my goal was to fill out the section a bit more, including some legislative action on both marriage and domestic partnerships.  I think it will be interesting to see how things have changed over the years.  I ran out of time yesterday to do more. (I want to be sure to get it right, so it will take some time, plus the darned "blank screen - don't know if your post took or not" problem was really bad, which slowed me down.)  I think we can find some language that makes it clear that marriage has always been between a man and a woman in California, but that in 1977 they realized that this was simply understood, and not codified in the law, thus they changed it to prevent same-sex marriage challenges.  The 1977 changes don't make sense unless we explain it was gender-neutral before that (though of course we have to make it clear that no one saw it that way back then, if you know what I mean.)  I'm open to suggestions.  Will address the rights point later - must get to the day's family activities. --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 09:39, 8 November 2008 (EST)

::[[User:Learn together|Learn together]], my goal was to fill out the section a bit more, including some legislative action on both marriage and domestic partnerships.  I think it will be interesting to see how things have changed over the years.  I ran out of time yesterday to do more. (I want to be sure to get it right, so it will take some time, plus the darned "blank screen - don't know if your post took or not" problem was really bad, which slowed me down.)  I think we can find some language that makes it clear that marriage has always been between a man and a woman in California, but that in 1977 they realized that this was simply understood, and not codified in the law, thus they changed it to prevent same-sex marriage challenges.  The 1977 changes don't make sense unless we explain it was gender-neutral before that (though of course we have to make it clear that no one saw it that way back then, if you know what I mean.)  I'm open to suggestions.  Will address the rights point later - must get to the day's family activities. --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 09:39, 8 November 2008 (EST)