The Associated Press reports that the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that San Francisco's mayor overstepped his authority by issuing same-sex marriage licenses this spring:
The court said the city violated the law when it issued the certificates and performed the marriage ceremonies in a month long wedding march that began Feb. 12, since both legislation and a voter-approved measure defined marriage as a union between a man and woman.
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The justices also decided with a 5-2 vote to nullify the nearly 4,000 marriages performed before the court halted the weddings on March 11. Their legality, Justice Joyce Kennard wrote, must wait until "the constitutionality of California laws restricting marriages to opposite-sex couples has been authoritatively resolved through judicial proceedings now pending in the courts of California."
I'm glad the Court upheld the law. Those who favor gay marriage should have challenged the law prohibiting gay marriages, as was done in Massachusetts, before engaging in municipal vigilantism.
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