[ken5050]

I’m happy, but a tad confused..so now 17,000 or so illegal marriages are in fact legal..???

[NinoFan]

The marriages were legal when they were entered into. Whether or not one agrees with the court’s decision last year to legalize gay marriage, it’s absolute fact that the marriages entered into after that decision but before prop 8 were done so legally . The question before the court was whether prop 8 invalidated such marriages or just applied going forward. The court decided that under its precedent the prior marriages should remain valid.

[calex59]

Well, they were legal anyway, thanks to the courts overturning a previous proposition, which is why prop 8 was made a constitutional amendment.

The Court should have thrown this case out and never heard it to begin with, you can't find a constitutional amendment unconstitutional. The homos were saying it was a "revision" and therefore could be overturned, but they didn't have a leg to stand on. The reason the court agreed(IMO)to hear this case was so they could declare the previous marriages valid. Once they get divorced or die off there will be no more homo marriages in CA(Knock on Wood).

[mowowie]

10,000 of ‘em will probably be divorced within 5 years.