California governor signs bill making state's marriage law gender-neutral

[JURIST] California Governor Jerry Brown [official website] on Monday signed into law [press release] a bill that will change the language in California's marriage code [text] to accommodate same-sex couples. The bill [SB 1306], introduced by California Senator Mark Leno [official website], proposes that all state-statutory references to opposite-gender couples, such as "husband" and "wife," be modified to apply to same-sex couples as well. SB 1306 comments on the California Constitution's "unenforceable" provision [text] that marriage only be between a...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/07/california-governor-signs-bill-making-states-marriage-law-gender-neutral.php

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