The California Supreme Court upheld a ban on same-sex marriage today, ratifying the proposition 8 decision made by California voters last November. The decision preserved the 18,000 marriages performed between the court’s May 2008 decision that same-sex marriage was lawful and the passage by voters of Proposition 8, which outlawed it.
Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts & Vermont have recently legalized gay marriage, so California voters are bucking a trend here…
Read the court decision itself (all 185 pages of it!) in a pdf file download. The download can take a bit…
Read an article about the decision in the May 26, 2009 edition of the New York Times.
Read about the decision at the Voice of America website.
Read about the decision in the May 26 2009 edition of the Washington Post website.
