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I’m missing something here. Didn’t the constitutional amendment explicitly invalidate all gay marriages? And didn’t the Supreme Court rule that the existing gay marriages could stand? This judicial rewrite of the constitution has setup a future equality before the law issue that will eventually lead to overturning the rest of the amendment. By allowing the court to set aside part of a constitutional amendment Californians have granted the court the power to toss out the rest at some point in the future. Everyone should be protesting the validation of the existing gay marriages instead of celebrating a temporary victory.

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This judicial rewrite of the constitution has setup a future equality before the law issue that will eventually lead to overturning the rest of the amendment. By allowing the court to set aside part of a constitutional amendment Californians have granted the court the power to toss out the rest at some point in the future.

Exactly right. This poison pill cannot be allowed to endure. Having the existence of fake marriage when fake marriage is outlawed is a travesty. This will be used as leverage to push for fake marriage everywhere again. But maybe the court knew this all along.

Everyone should be protesting the validation of the existing gay marriages instead of celebrating a temporary victory.

I agree. Ground hasn't been gained, or even held. True marriage advocates lost in this fiasco. There are now 18,000 in-your-face homosexual couples who will flaunt this to no end, whether in this state or in other states which must now defend themselves against the inevitable lawsuits which will be filed to overturn state DOMA's and constitutional amendments.