Today at 10:00 AM PST Californian, and I believe the rest of the country, are waiting for the decision from California Supreme Court in a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn November's Proposition 8. If the seven-member court upholds the initiative as a constitutional expression of the electorate's will, it also will be deciding whether to sustain the marriages of an estimated 18,000 gay couples who wed before the measure passed with 52 percent of the vote. Proposition 8 superseded the Supreme Court's May 2008 ruling that legalized same-sex unions by changing the state constitution to outlaw them. In that 4-3 decision, the court majority invalidated California's marriage statutes, holding that denying same-sex couples the right to wed amounted to state-sanctioned discrimination. SOURCETuesday, May 26, 2009
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Today at 10:00 AM PST Californian, and I believe the rest of the country, are waiting for the decision from California Supreme Court in a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn November's Proposition 8. If the seven-member court upholds the initiative as a constitutional expression of the electorate's will, it also will be deciding whether to sustain the marriages of an estimated 18,000 gay couples who wed before the measure passed with 52 percent of the vote. Proposition 8 superseded the Supreme Court's May 2008 ruling that legalized same-sex unions by changing the state constitution to outlaw them. In that 4-3 decision, the court majority invalidated California's marriage statutes, holding that denying same-sex couples the right to wed amounted to state-sanctioned discrimination. SOURCE
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