“...by the end of this year, the Supreme Court will have legalized same sex marriage in their ruling on the California initiative that defended marriage as we know it.”
Even if our masters in black robes don’t reverse DOMA or prop. 8, it isn’t too positive in my opinion. Prop 8 only passed by 52% in 2008. CA’s Prop. 22 passed by around 60% in 2000. NC passed one last year by 61% or so, matching what CA did 12 years before, but was hailed as a great victory by some. If you go by the states around NC that passed amendments in the early early-mid 2000’s in the high 70% low 80% ranges, NC lost about 15-20% in a little less than 10 years.
As far as the state is concerned, marriage is simply whatever judges, pols, or 51% of the majority think it is at any one time.
Freegards
The law says otherwise. The law in the United States is very clear that the Common Law definition of marriage is one man and one woman.
Yes, even if, and that is becoming a bigger if every day, the Supreme Court upholds Prop 8 the voters are being educated by California’s education system that homosexuality is normal. So when they reach voting age they will vote to make it legal anyway.