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Folded into Justice Anto-nin Scalia’s dissent of theSupreme Court’s affirmationof gay marriage across theUnited States on Fridaycame a slap at California andits singular place in thecross-section of the Amer-ican experience.Not only did eight of the
court’s nine members growup in coastal states, Scaliawrote, but only one “hailsfrom the vast expanse inbetween,” with “not a singleSouthwesterner or even, totell the truth, a genuineWesterner.”In parentheses, he said,
“California does not count.”In the majority opinion in
the landmark case, ofcourse, it did. Not only did aCalifornian, Anthony Kenne-dy, provide the swing voteand write the opinion for themajority, but the 5-4 deci-sion, in which the court heldthat the Constitution guaran-tees gay people the right towed in every state, reflecteda cultural shift in whichCalifornia has stood at thehead.It was more than a decade
ago that Lt. Gov. Gavin New-som, then the mayor of SanFrancisco, ordered officialsin his city to perform gayweddings in 2004.During the years-long
battle that ensued, gay rightsactivists and opponents ofsame-sex marriage focusedtheir efforts on California.The state’s voters passedProposition 8, banning same-sex marriage in 2008, thensaw the ban overturned bythe court and marriagesresume in 2013.“As California goes, so
goes the rest of the nation,”
SUPREME COURT RULING
State led culturalshift on marriageBY DAVID SIDERS, SAMMYCAIOLA ANDMICHAEL DOYLEThe Sacramento Bee
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Like its law-and-ordercousins the Sheriff’s De-partment and local policeagencies, the StanislausCounty District Attorney’soffice had its own K-9 uniton Friday. Of a sort.At least 11 dogs were at
the DA’s 12th Street offic-es in downtown Modestoto join in the nationwideTake Your Dog to WorkDay. Word was, a 12th
might have been aroundsomewhere, but he or shedidn’t make it to socialtime and a group photo.This was the fourth year
District Attorney BirgitFladager’s employeesparticipated in the 17thannual event. The headcount included pets youngand old, big and small.The breeds: corgi, kelpie,
border collie mix, bassethound, poodle, beagle,Jack Russell terrier,goldendoodle, Pomera-nian, long-haired dach-shund and Saluki.It was the first Take
Your Dog to Work Day forCheryl Titus, VictimsServices Unit programcoordinator, and golden-doodle Teddy, who, trueto his name, was a bigteddy bear.“It makes me a little
JOAN BARNETT LEE [email protected]
Sabra Harris works with her dog Angus on Friday at the District Attorney’s Office.
DA’s Office goes to thedogs on pups-at-work dayBY DEKE [email protected]
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Watch the dogs in the DA’s officeFriday at www.modbee.com.
ed nonprofit MoPRIDE Inc.“You have marriage as a
religious institution, in asense, and a legal institution,and the courts are ruling onit as a legal institution,” headded. “It really is clearlytwo different issues, but a lotof Americans don’t see itthat that way.”There are churches that
embrace gay marriage andthose that reject it, and evenpastors who support it whentheir larger church doesn’t,Lampman said, and a courtruling won’t change that.
Members and advocatesof the gay and lesbian com-munity in the Modesto arearejoiced Friday that the lawof the land has changed withthe U.S. Supreme Court’sdecision that the Constitu-tion guarantees a right tosame-sex marriage. But theydidn’t don rose-coloredglasses for the celebration,observing that hurdles stillremain.Every time a state has
supported same-sex mar-
riage, it’s been legally chal-lenged, “so I imagine theSupreme Court decision willbe challenged as well,” saidBret Lampman, who withhusband John Welsh found-
Justices’ historic decisioncelebrated in ModestoBY DEKE [email protected] ‘‘I NEVER THOUGHTFOR A SECOND I
WOULD SEE THIS INMY LIFETIME.Andrew Thomlinson
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JEFF CHIU The Associated Press
Jessica Chesnutt, visiting from Brooklyn with her wife, cheers outside City Hall in SanFrancisco on Friday, following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage.