What did the California Supreme Court Rule on Prop 8?
Here is the story: (05-26) 14:30 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — California voters legally outlawed same-sex marriage when they approved Proposition 8 in November, but the constitutional amendment did not dissolve the unions of 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who wed before the measure took effect, the state Supreme Court ruled today. The 6-1 decision upholding Prop. 8 was issued by the same court that declared a year ago that a state law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman violated the right to choose one’s spouse and discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation. Prop. 8 undid that ruling by reinstating the definition of marriage that the court had struck down, this time as an amendment to the state Constitution. The author of last year’s 4-3 decision, Chief Justice Ronald George, said today that the voters were within their rights to do so. “All political power is inherent in the people,” George said, quoting the Declaration of Rights in the state Constitution. He said the vo
Prop 8 was legally voted by California voters who ruled that marriage was restricted to heterosexual couples and the California Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. The proposition did not affect same-sex marriages before November 5, 2008.
In August 2010, Prop 8 was overturned by the Federal Supreme Court because it didn’t "advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license" by Judge Vaughn Walker. This means that it is illegal to deny marriage to same sex couples in the state of California.
Here is the story: (05-26) 14:30 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — California voters legally outlawed same-sex marriage when they approved Proposition 8 in November, but the constitutional amendment did not dissolve the unions of 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who wed before the measure took effect, the state Supreme Court ruled today. The 6-1 decision upholding Prop. 8 was issued by the same court that declared a year ago that a state law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman violated the right to choose one’s spouse and discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation. Prop. 8 undid that ruling by reinstating the definition of marriage that the court had struck down, this time as an amendment to the state Constitution. The author of last year’s 4-3 decision, Chief Justice Ronald George, said today that the voters were within their rights to do so. “All political power is inherent in the people,” George said, quoting the Declaration of Rights in the state Constitution. He said the vo
