To the leftists, obfuscation and distortion of plain language is a way of life. This was totally unnecessary in American thought and life 40 years ago. I guess you now have to anticipate every possible permutation of possibilities even vaguely relating to a law before getting it enacted. Every law will have to be the size of a full volume of encyclopedias.
The previous law on marriage in California was Proposition 22, which was just a regular statute law, not a constitutional amendment. It also defined marriage as a man and a woman.
During previous debates on marriage, the gay activists said that Proposition 22 only explicitly banned out of state same sex marriage, because it was amending the part of the Calif. family code that dealt with recognition of out of state marriage. Now they are arguing the opposite by saying that Proposition 8 is only dealing with in state marriage, but that now the state is free to recognize out of state homosexual marriage?????
They can’t have it both ways can they? Yes I agree these leftists and gay activists just want to litigate and obfuscate and try to find any possible permutation in the law to get what they want.
It’s beyond me how the state of Calif. can recognize out of state homosexual marriage when they have an amendment defining marriage.