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To: one_less who wrote (6644)	6/30/2003 11:48:29 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

Can someone define "banning gay marriages?" Precluding through Constitutional amendment the recognition of gay marriages by states or supporting the authority of states to not recognized marriages authorized by other states.

To: one_less who wrote (6644)	6/30/2003 1:33:04 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 7720

I was at the Washington State Bar Association Family Law Section annual conference this past weekend, and exactly that same question arose and was discussed. The answer is, nobody knows, and nobody was willing to go out on a limb with a projection. What's clear is that sometime within the next five to ten years the issue will likely reach the State Supreme Court in some form or other. Quite possibly in the inheritance arena, with a married gay couple moving down from Canada to the US, one of them dying intestate, and the surviving spouse asking for intestate spousal rights Our Court has ruled clearly that in a gay relationship there are no intestate or spousal rights of inheritance. We had that very issue come up recently. But as to whether our state will recognize those couples as legally married, well, we won't know for sure until the state Supreme Court rules. And that's down the road aways.