Legal Documents

This brief argues for the California Supreme Court to review and decide a case involving religiously motivated medical discrimation against a California woman on the basis of her sexual orientation.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, one of the nation’s preeminent civil rights legal organizations, encourages this Court not to endorse discrimination against gay men and lesbians by denying their fundamental right to marry the person they love.

National civil rights groups including the Anti-Defamation League and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund explain that denying same-sex couples the right to marry is not merely a denial of the collective rights and duties that married New Yorkers enjoy, but a denial of due process and equal protection of the State’s laws.