No, he definitely lifted the stay. He merely delayed entry of final judgment until the 18th. I presume to give the proponents of Prop 8 time to seek a stay from the Ninth Circuit or SCOTUS.
The whole premise of getting these fake “marriages” performed as quickly as possible, is to give the left another tool to use against Justice Kennedy down the road. They want to be able to say “See all these people have been getting ‘married’ since this decision and nothing bad has happened.” This filthy diseased sodomite has stacked the deck against marriage in every way possible.
Not giving Kennedy enough credit, and definitely not giving Alito enough credit, who had the 5-4 majority opinion written in his head 15 minutes after Walker issued.
Read Perry v. Schwarzenegger -- Vanned has teed it up perfectly for Alito, ahem, Roberts. Vanned has fooled himself into believing he's successfully pandered to Kennedy by mimicing Lawrence, but Kennedy will defer to the Chief Justice on this, not uncoincidentally as he did in Bush v. Gore, and remember who the loser was in that one - David Boies.