Source: San Diego Union Tribune , San Francisco Chronicle Doctors in California must treat gays and lesbians the same as any other patient the state Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that pitted case pitted religious freedom rights guaranteed in the constitution against California's strong anti-discrimination laws. In a unanimous decision, the court rejected a San Diego County fertility clinic's attempt to use its physicians' religious beliefs as a justification for their refusal to provide artificial insemination for a lesbian couple. Guadalupe Benitez sued her doctors at a clinic...(read more) ...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle SAN FRANCISCO -- After two courts rejected their complaints about the state's official description of Proposition 8, backers of the measure said they won't appeal to the Supreme Court. The measure on the November ballot will appear with text stating that it would eliminate same-sex couples' right to marry in California. Sponsors of the measure argued that the title and summary drafted by Attorney General Jerry Brown were argumentative and designed to encourage voters to oppose Prop. 8. But a Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled Friday that Brown's...(read more) ...

Source: Sacramento Bee , San Francisco Chronicle   A ballot label that says Proposition 8 "eliminates (the) right of same-sex couples to marry" will remain intact after a Sacramento County judge today dismissed a challenge by supporters of the measure. The language will accompany the measure banning gay and lesbian marriages in California on every ballot and in every voter pamphlet, unless an appeals court intervenes before the close of business Monday, the deadline for sending election material to the state printer. Religious conservatives who sponsored Prop. 8 objected vehemently...(read more) ...