Prop. 8 ban in California
In San Francisco on February 7, 2012- Same sex marriage came one step closer to the Supreme Court, when a federal appeals court ruled that the ban was unconstitutional. A three judge panel gave gay marriage opponents time to appeal the 2-1 decision after this they allowed the state to allow gay marriage. Opponents of gay marriage wanted to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling.
Proposition 8 was approved in 2008 by voters with 52 percent of the vote. It was unconstitutional because the court said it singled out a minority group for disparate treatment for no compelling reason. They then concluded that they law had no purpose other than to deny gay couples marriage, but they could register as domestic partners. The dissenting judge insisted that the ban could help and make sure that children were raised by opposite-sex married people.
Now six states allow gay couples to get married- Connecticut, New Hampshire, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and the District of Columbia. Out of all the states California has 98,000 same-sex couples and that is why gays fight so hard in California to get their rights, and 18,000 couples tied the knot during the window before prop. 8 went into effect, but in California weddings will not start anytime soon it will not take full effect until the deadline passes in two weeks.
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