SCOTUS rules DOMA unconstitutional, strikes down California's Prop 8

These are conflicting rulings by the Supreme Court...as if that's ever stopped them!

It appears that the ruling against key provisions of DOMA says that those states with gay marriage can maintain it, but it's not forcing it on all the states...

The Supreme Court has struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act forbidding federal recognition of gay marriages for couples residing in states that recognize their union.

That was a 5-4 decision handed down by Justice Anthony Kennedy and the other four liberal justices.

However, with the following ruling that strikes down Prop 8, where the majority of California voters legally expressed their disapproval of same-sex marriage at the ballot box multiple times, the Supreme Court's action seems to only pave the way for a one-way street on the matter. Basically, once it's in, it's there forever. So once the initiative is brought up in your state, what recourse will you, the voters, have to dissuade it? Doesn't seem like much. It would appear that the SCOTUS has opened up Pandora's Box.

CBSLA: The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday cleared the way for same-sex marriage to resume in California.

The Supreme Court did not take issue on Proposition 8, allowing the state’s former ruling on same-sex marriage to stand, which gives gay couples the right to marry.

“We have no authority to decide this case on the merits, and neither did the 9th Circuit,” Roberts said, referring to the federal appeals court that also struck down Prop. 8.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia.

Prop. 8 was being challenged by two California same-sex couples after it was approved by 7 million voters in 2008.

The decision only affects marriages in California, which were expected to resume within a month.

Well, I knew we couldn't trust Roberts, but this is the second case this week that Scalia's gotten wrong. Oh well, it's just morality.

Don't think this will stop at California's border, even though the Court says the Prop 8 ruling is limited to that state. I'm pretty sure these back-to-back rulings just cleared the way for activists to push their agenda on every single state, regardless of voters' approval; because as the couple in the Prop 8 case stated afterwards, they're gonna take this nationwide and do it for marriage equality or 'the kids' or something...