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Gay marriage outlawed in California

Thursday, 6 November 2008

Voters in California have overturned the state's decision to legalise gay marriage.

Around 18,000 same-sex couples have tied the knot since the California Supreme Court ruled in May that gay marriages should be allowed.

Their legal status is now uncertain following the passage of a constitutional amendment outlawing such unions.

The amendment, which secured a 52% majority, overrides the Supreme Court ruling by defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

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It's not funny at all.
It's rather sad two people can't share their love with the world.

Unfortunately it's just how some people are.

Shameful.

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Posted by k | 07.11.08, 17:36 GMT

I think it's absolutely hilarious how many Hollywood celebrities threw their weight and money behind Obama as well as the gay cause and it totally backfired when the vast majority of African Americans voted to ban gay marriage.

Posted by M. Sullivan | 07.11.08, 11:19 GMT

Most of my fellow Ulster-Scottish Californians joined me and most black Californians in voting yes on Proposition 8, just as I'm sure my distant relatives in Ulster would have done. Gays are allowed to have wedding ceremonies and call themselves husband and wife if they choose, but legally their relationship will not be defined as marriage. They can enter a civil partnership and thereby gain privileges associated with marriage, just as men and women use separate toilets without impairing the rights of either. Twice the voters have been thwarted, first by the the Irish mayor of SF, and then by the judges of the Supreme Court. My distant relatives the Ulster Protestants know what it's like to have their democratic will attacked and subverted on the basis of alarmist symbolism rather than fact. I also voted for Obama, but overall I think your Democratic Unionist Party is more democratic than our Democratic Party, the party of activist judges and tyrannical mayors.

Posted by Rowan | 06.11.08, 22:56 GMT

Those who believe the Church's teaching is based on the Holy Bible are very happy to learn that a majority of the voters in the
most populous state in the U.S.A have supported marriage as God
intended it to be, a natural and sacred union of one man and one
woman. This is a victory for decency and a defeat for immorality.

Posted by Sean MacCurtain | 06.11.08, 22:40 GMT

Posted by Sean MacCurtain | 06.11.08, 22:39 GMT

All the back-slapping about how wonderfully progressive America has become by electing a black president seems a bit hypocritical when they turn round and deny another section of their society equal rights. There is something deeply disturbing about this kind of accepted bigotry.

Posted by JD | 06.11.08, 21:50 GMT

Great...gayness is sin....but remember there are other sins too and Jesus died for our sins......

Posted by KQ | 06.11.08, 21:50 GMT

America was supposedly founded on the separation of Church & State; yet the conservatives who saw to it that Proposition 8 was passed in California this week completely overlooked this. They say their concern with gay marriage is that all churches will be required to embrace the idea of same-sex marriage; this is not true. Liberal-thinking Americans WANT to keep church & state separate; therefore no church would be regulated to the point of requiring recognition of a rite its members do not believe in.

But a majority-vote in CA to restrict the rights of a minority (the gay minority) is outrageous, especially when it was subsidized by conservative groups based beyond California's borders.

The gay minority in America will coalesce and ultimately see victory with regard to equal rights in marriage and adoption. And history will record it as another chapter in America's quest for true equality for all its people. This remains a civil rights issue, not a moral one.

Posted by Marianne Puechl, N. Carolina | 06.11.08, 18:09 GMT