California Supreme Court Ruling - Proposition 8 Upheld, but 18,000 marriages remain legal

The California Supreme Court has upheld Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, but it also has decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect will stay married. Still separate and still not equal. Read more.

And so it is, yet another obstacle on the journey towards equal civil rights. The battle isn't over, and a counter-initiative intended to overturn Proposition 8 will likely reach the California ballot box in 2010 or 2011.

But, for now, I'm as mad as hell...



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"Bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression."

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