Prop 8 in California: No to Homosexual Marriage -- For Now

I left California early in 2001 and now call Washington state my home. Besides the usual litany of Republicans, the last thing I voted for, eight Novembers past, was Prop 22, which, I had thought, defined marriage as between a man and a woman, finally putting the issue of homosexual marriage to rest. It passed overwhelmingly.

Those of us who supported Prop 22 were mistaken. The courts saw to that for us.

Today, as ballots continue to trickle in, the voters have approved a similar measure meant to preserve the sanctity of marriage as between a man and a woman. I note, however, that the margin of passing was a mere 5 percent. Not the mandate I had hoped to see, but passage nonetheless.

Before the ink is dry and Prop 8 becomes law, you can bet the ACLU and other insane attorneys and law makers will be scrambling to find the precise wording with which to undermine the proposition, even shopping it to various judges to determine its constitutionality. How long will it be until Prop 8 is overturned by the Ninth Circuit Court and Gavin Newsome resumes blessing homosexual marriages in San Francisco?

Ask Las Vegas oddsmakers, but I'd give it about three months. And that doesn't include what Obama might attempt to enact on a national level, coalescing many of the States' rights into a legal monolithic behemoth residing in Washington DC over which we will have no say.