美国第九巡回上诉法院裁定8号提案违宪。8号提案最早在2008年11月在加州投票通过,修改宪法以禁止同性婚姻。而在8号提案通过的五个月之前,加州最高法院推翻了之前一项关于同性婚姻的禁令;在此期间内,加州为大约18,000对同性夫妻颁发了结婚证书。
The appeals court upheld a lower courts ruling in 2010 that Proposition 8 violated thefourteenth amendment, but did so on far narrower grounds, leaving unanswered the broadquestion of whether states could ever restrict marriage to heterosexual couples, and findinginstead that Californias measure visited a unique harm upon gays and lesbians by strippingthem of a right they once enjoyed. Under California law, gays retained the rights to adoptchildren,file taxes jointly and share bank accounts. Proposition 8 simply denied them theofficial, cherished status of marriage,leading the court to conclude that its sole purposewas to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California.
虽然巡回上诉法院支持初级法院在 2010年做出的关于8号提案违反第十四修正案的裁定,但它基于的理由却极为狭隘,它回避了一个更广泛的悬而未决的问题美国各州是否会将婚姻仅限定于异性夫妻之间;相反地,却只针对由于加州的做法剥夺了一项同性恋者们曾经享有的权利,反而对他们造成了特定伤害这一点做文章。加州的法律规定,同性恋享有领养孩子,共同纳税以及共享银行账户的权利。8号提案只是否决了他们婚姻的合法的,崇高的地位,这使法庭断定8号提案唯一的目的就是要降低加州同性恋者的地位并剥夺他们的尊严。
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