The shocking news:
The California Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Proposition 8, the successful California ballot measure which defined marriage to be between a man and a woman, is constitutional. It also decided that the some 18,000 homosexual “marriages” contracted in the state should remain valid in law.
By a vote of 6-1, the state Supreme Court justices ruled Proposition 8 was constitutional. The court unanimously ruled that existing “marriages” would stand. Proposition 8 was put forward as a response to the California Supreme Court’s May 2008 decision which by a vote of 4-3 overturned a state ban on such unions.
The 18,000 marriages are to remain legal under the ex post facto part of the United States Constitution – though a case can be made that the CA SC had no business overturning the first ballot initiative banning gay marriage…a case for another day.
Be that as it may, I guess the California Supreme Court decided against having a revolution in California – the complete overturn of CA’s political class would have been the result of an overturning of this amendment.
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