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I think they should let it be. There are a lot more important issues and ways our tax dollars could be spent!
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I think you are talking about the state of CA, right? Perhaps you should re-read an interpretation of the Supreme Court ruling. But excellent question otherwise. 1. Any couple of any gender pairing can approach a county as of June 15th (30 days after the ruling) for a marriage license. So LGBT people, and other people, CAN get married as of this date. 2. Even if the bigots get the ballot initiative passed - which is not a slam-dunk - it is unlikely that marriages performed in the interim would be invalidated. This would mean the initiative would be an "ex post facto" law in effect, which tend to be seen as illegal. 3. You are correct that if the ballot initiative passes, defining marriage as "one man and one woman," couples of any other gender pairing would not be able to obtain a marriage license from any county in CA. One more point - when MA obtained a similar Supreme Court ruling, everyone predicted chaos and damnation. Note that MA has been just fine. So will CA, once we get this ballot initiative out of the way. +5
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