Supporters of Gay Marriage Await US Court Rulings
March 26, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider same-sex marriage in two historic cases being argued this week. Gay couples - both married and unmarried - are watching closely.
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Supporters of same-sex marriage are rallying this week in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities, urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's 2008 gay marriage ban, called Proposition 8, and the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 federal law that defines marriage as a union of one man and one woman.
About 18,000 same-sex couples married in California in a five-month period in 2008, before the state supreme court ruled that Proposition 8 is legally valid. That prevented more same-sex marriages, but the justices allowed existing marriages to stand.
One Los Angeles lesbian couple is among the thousands who married, and Vangie Griego says they want that right for others.
“I should not be treated differently because I love a woman. And my children should not be treated differently because their mothers decided to fall in love and decided to adopt children,” Griego said.
The women, who have two school-age sons, say they face restrictions not faced by heterosexual couples. They have no spousal rights for federal pension benefits, and clear-cut inheritance rights if one of them dies. Griego's partner, Marita Forney, says it's not fair.
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