A voter-supported ban on same-sex marriage in California was declared unconstitutional by a US federal appeals court

The California Supreme Court issued its decision today and voted 6-1 to uphold Proposition 8, a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban same sex marriages that passed by a wide margin. As part of the decision, the court also ruled that the 14-18,000 same sex couples who were legally married during the interval when such marriages were legal will continue to be recognized by the st...

In the amidst of the Obama victory, two of the states that voted for him also backed a move that bans same sex marriage. A blow to equality: California and two other states voted in Tuesday's elections to ban same-sex marriage, dealing a blow to gays and lesbians in the left-leaning, trend-setting state months after they won their case in state court. Tony Perkins, president of the conservati...

Assorted conservatives and homophobes are tryng to force their pathetic fear of same-sex attraction on the entire population of California by pushing a vote on Proposition 8. Amusingly, while the bigots named their proposal The California Marriage Protection Amendment, California Attorney General Jerry Brown renamed it the rather more accurate 'Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry Ac...

Gay marriage looks certain to be outlawed in California after voters backed a highly emotive constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex unions

From Mike Huckabee The California Supreme Court by a near unanimous vote of 6 to 1, upheld Proposition 8, which they should have. This is the second time that the people of California had affirmed traditional marriage with their votes, and this time, the Court accepted that the role of the court is to uphold the Constitution—not to re-write it. On November 4, 2008 voters in California approv...

California has banned same-sex marriages after their courts overruled the ban. I'm not too upset that marriage has been banned, but not allowing a union of any kind is certainly not very fair. I wont go into the 'should gay couples have the same rights as straight couples' debate as it's pretty obvious what I think but as America takes one step forward, California has taken one...

An important 9th Circuit Appeals Court Ruling On Perry v. Brown, which concerns California's Proposition 8 repealing same sex marriage is expected tomorrow. There are three important points at issue: First, whether former U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself from hearing the case, seeing that he happens to be gay, has a long-time partner with whom he was not mar...

Supporters of same-sex marriage need to focus on persuading their fellow citizens, not the courts - as the California vote demonstrated.

Gordon Brown has attacked the ban on same-sex marriage recently passed in California. (BBC News: Brown attacks US gay marriage ban & PinkNews: Exclusive: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown declares Prop 8 gay marriage ban "unacceptable") Perhaps he should first look at the situation in the UK, where he can do something about it. Under the enactment "Proposition 8" the situation in California ...