The SF mayor violates state law. The governator, sensing anarchy doesn't use his police powers to direct the arrest of all those violating law in SF. Rather than get his feet wet, he passes the hot potato over to the AG's office. The attorney generrat could have issued an opinion declaring the entire illegal mess - halting the madness in Sin Francisco, but doesn't. He tosses the potato to the most flagrant activist court in the world - the CA Supreme Court.
The CA AG says he wants to do something he has sat on for his entire tenure - question the constitutionality of the popular passage of a law written by citizens ( not the political slugs in the legislature ) defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman - not Jack and Jack, Jackie and Jackie, Jackie and Rover, Jack and his plastic blowup, or sister Sue and brother Sam.
But wait! There's a citizens group doing a mandamus thing before the Supremes demanding the wholesale anarchy be brought to a halt - now - a legal step the governator and the attorney generrat ran away from.
The moral to this story is wash your hands immediately if a politician touches yours - especially if he says he's favors civil unions of any kind to sodomites.
It's time to return criminal law to the books that criminalized sexual behavior contrary to the norms of a the community.