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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

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Donaldson v. State of Montana, 2012 MT 288 (2012)
Jurisdiction
Montana (state)
Effective Date
2012-12-17

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         The State has put forth one purported objective for the exclusion of same-sex
couples from the statutory benefits and obligations provided to married couples: “that an
option short of marriage would detract from or dilute the uniqueness of the marital bond.”
For reasons discussed in the Marriage Amendment section below, I conclude that this
asserted justification is without merit. See ¶¶ 174-178, 186-187, 204-205, infra.
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¶165 Suffice it to say that, as I stated in Baxter, human dignity is perhaps the most