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Last Updated on Thursday, 8 May 2008 09:56 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 8 May 2008 09:56
From the New York Sun:
Justice Stephen Markman, writing for the majority, said that while marriages and domestic partnerships aren’t identical, they are similar.
Dissenting Justices Michael Cavanagh and Marilyn Kelly said the constitutional amendment prohibits nothing more than same-sex marriages or similar unions. They argued that circumstances surrounding the election suggest Michigan voters didn’t intend to take away people’s benefits.
Michigan’s Republican attorney general, Mike Cox, in 2005 interpreted the measure to make unconstitutional existing domestic partner policies at the city of Kalamazoo and elsewhere.