Do the right thing on marriage

Forty-five years after it ruled that laws against interracial marriage violated the Constitution, the Supreme Court is finally poised to scrutinize the equally unjust impediments to marriage between people of the same sex. At a private conference Friday, the justices will consider several petitions relating to the issue. Of particular concern to Californians is whether the justices will decide to review a federal court ruling that declared Proposition 8, the state's ban on gay marriage, unconstitutional.

November 29, 2012