Standhardt v. Superior Court

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• holding that because same-sex marriages are not deeply rooted in the legal and social history of our Nation, they cannot be a fundamental right
• holding that if the Supreme Court did not view same-gender sexual relations to be a fundamental right, the Court could not have intended to confer such status on same-gender marriage
• holding that the state has an interest in promoting child-rearing by opposite-sex couples
• determining that the Supreme Court's holding in Lawrence cannot be interpreted to provide for same-sex marriage
• determining that the Supreme Court’s holding in Lawrence cannot be interpreted to provide for same-sex marriage
• rejecting Romer analogy on grounds that statute limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers a proper legislative end and was not enacted simply to make same-sex couples unequal

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