West called the decision a "complete vindication" and said the district attorney had been "wasting taxpayer money for 18 months."
Gay weddings swept the country starting in San Francisco in early 2004, when Newsom flung open the city's wedding registry to gay couples. While officials in other locations were ordered to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, Massachusetts' highest court ruled that same-sex couples were able to tie the knot in that state.
West has maintained he was upholding the gay couples' constitutional rights to equal protection — and thus his oath of office — by allowing them to wed.
Something ALL of us need to remember: the real reason this "gay marriage" debacle was stopped is that it was a case of officials ignoring the law and thumbing their nose at the State. The idea was floated (and much of it started here on FR, I believe), that if the gay activists could ignore the law at will and not be punished for it, then 2nd Amendment believers could do the same. People began to seriously float the idea they should find a small town in CA, and have the mayor start issuing firearms licenses for "assault weapons". THAT scared the big boys! It wasn't until then that Arhnold and the other Rinos began to take this flauting of the law seriously.