Cultural divide over gay marriage inspires negotiation

03/19/09 National Law Journal Legal Pad:

"In the wake of Proposition 8, compromise abounds almost as much as contention. Many of these seem to center around removing the word 'marriage' from the argument."

03/18/09 Jewish Daily Forward:

A "compromise, proposed by Jonathan Rauch and David Blankenhorn, would grant federal civil union status to state-sanctioned gay marriages and civil unions, but it would link that new status to guarantees of religious liberty ... [University of Southern California law professor David Cruz] does not support the compromise proposal, since most states do not allow gays and lesbians to join in marriages or in civil unions. 'So to many gay and lesbian people, the so-called compromise offers nothing,' he said."

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