California prepares to lift its ban on same-sex marriages, The Supreme Court of California ruled May 15 that the state’s ban on gay marriage violated its constitution, paving the way for such marriages to begin June 17.
California’s Supreme Court is not the law of the land, but its conducting 4-3 rules for six consolidated appeals, explicitly told both the state’s voters and its elected legislature to get lost. Back in 2000, California voters by about 62% approved a proposition asserting that the state could only recognize a “marriage” between man and woman. But by the court’s words: The core set of basic substantive legal rights and attributes traditionally associated with this type of marriage by the court’s emphasis.
