The decision virtually ensures another fight at the ballot box over marriage rights for gays. Gay rights activists said they may ask voters to repeal the marriage ban as early as next year, and opponents have pledged to fight any such effort. Proposition 8 passed with 52% of the vote.
At least they had the human decency to leave the 18,000 marriages between same-sex couples that had been performed between May and November of 2008. Those lucky people won't have been surreptitiously divorced by the tyranny of the majority.
I know the there's not much point in me weighing in on the U.S. political stuff. You've either already read it somewhere else or you don't care. But this just pisses me off. You would think Californians would know better. You would think that with the tide moving toward civil rights for LGBT people in the U.S. a state as generally forward-thinking as California would be on the forefront of this issue.
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