File this under "doing the right thing for a change" [1]:
SAN FRANCISCO -- -- A voter initiative to reinstate a ban on same-sex marriage will remain on the November ballot, the California Supreme Court decided unanimously Wednesday.
The court issued a brief order rejecting arguments that the initiative, Proposition 8, was an illegal constitutional revision and that voters had been misled when they signed petitions to put it on the ballot. The decision, reached in closed session during the court's weekly conference, cleared the way for what some observers expect to be a close vote on the marriage measure.
The signatures for the initiative had already been gathered when the California Supreme Court decided 4 to 3 in May to strike down a state ban on same-sex marriage. Same sex couples began marrying in California last month.
Now it's up to the voters in California. Hope they can do the right thing as well.
Links:
[1] http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-gaymarriage17-2008jul17,0,4823383.story