CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Domestic Partners
......Benefits
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Eligible military vets in CA are entitled to all state-funded veterans' benefits, including housing, regardless of sexual orientation or gender; their registered DPs entitled to all same benefits as spouses.

Triable issue of fact as to whether Ds' religiously-based refusal to perform IUI for lesbian was based on marital status and not sex. orientation; marital status discrimination not prohibited by Unruh Act at time of refusal.

Marital status claims cognizable under Unruh Act; registered DPs are same as spouses under Act and business which denies benefits to registered DPs that it gives to spouses engages in impermissible marital status discrimination.