Any week now, the California Supreme Court will release its opinion upholding Proposition 8, cementing California as a state that forbids same-sex marriage. The justices strongly telegraphed at the March oral arguments that Prop 8 will stay on the books, but the 18,000 same-sex marriages entered into last summer and fall will remain valid.
The decision will bring the marriage equality movement to a screeching halt in California, at least for the time being, even as it is catching fire at the national level. Chief Justice Ronald George may get some flack from the same gay rights advocates who lionized him just months ago. But even as he and his colleagues bow to the will of conservative California voters, they can claim a substantial piece of the credit for same-sex nuptials in Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, Maine and probably several more states before the decade has run.
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