News reports that California's Prop 8 has been struck down as unconstitutional are completely false.
Proposition 8 is the amendment to the California Constitution that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman. A federal trial judge--Vaughn Walker--held that Prop 8 violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court held that only the losing defendants in that case--the governor and attorney general of California--had standing to appeal that decision. When they refused to do so, Prop 8's official sponsors filed the appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and pursued it all the way to the Supreme Court.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, did it make a sound?
In other words, if this interpretation is correct, will this even be reported? So far I am not hearing it anywhere else.
I am in California and it's this nullification of our referendum process that is really making me think HARD about moving to a red state. California is actually a lot more conservative than most of you probably think - especially the central part of the state - so it's a real kick in the teeth to know we have no voice whatsoever.
This "no standing" decision from the USSC was gutless and weak. Mark Levin is right about them.
“Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?” Joseph Stalin
RIGHT'S RIGHT 
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