From the BBC:
"California gay marriage ban lifted"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23109152
"California gay marriage ban lifted"
A US appeals court has lifted a ban
on same-sex marriages in California, following a Supreme Court ruling. The order was issued by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San
Francisco. Within moments, gay weddings resumed at the city hall - the first such
marriages in the state since the voter-approved ban in November 2008. On Wednesday the US Supreme Court left in place a lower court ruling which
had struck down the ban - also known as Proposition 8. The ruling means that 13 US states and the District of Columbia now recognise
same-sex marriage. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had been expected to
wait 25 days before lifting the ban - in case the losing side wanted to ask for
the case to be heard again. But judges at the appeals court decided to act on Friday, saying: "The stay
in the above matter is dissolved effective immediately." Shortly afterwards, one of the two same-sex couples whose case led to the
Supreme Court's Wednesday decision got married at San Francisco's town hall. The wedding of Kris Perry, 48, and Sandy Stier, 50, was officiated by
California's Attorney General Kamala Harris. She declared them "spouse and spouse", but during their vows they took each
other as a "lawfully wedded wife", the Associated Press news agency reports.
^ I don't see why CA would need to wait 25 days they performed gay marriages in the past and so have all the forms, etc to do it again. I guess the Circuit Court agreed with me. ^
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23109152
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