California Same-Sex Couples Race to Beat Ballot

SAN FRANCISCO — Sharna Fey and Kim Broadbeck have married three times. In 2004, they married in a daze. In 2005, they married on an island. And on Monday, when it really counted under the law, they married in a hurry.

“We’re doing this while we still can,” said Ms. Fey, 44, a life coach who has been with Ms. Broadbeck for 11 years and through two previous same-sex marriage ceremonies, neither recognized as legal. “I mean, trust me, we feel married. But this is a legal response.”

With polls showing the outcome of a ballot measure on Tuesday on outlawing same-sex marriage in California a tossup, couples were not taking any chances on Monday. They showed up early here at City Hall, wearing boutonnieres and blouses and holding hands — and their collective breath.

In West Hollywood, a gay-friendly city in Los Angeles County, John Duran, a city councilman, said he had performed 25 ceremonies since Friday, driving all over Los Angeles County to officiate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/us/04marriage.html?th&emc=th

Does Prop 8 nullify the marriage that have been performed since the Court ruling? Or, even if it passes, those still apply?

I'm not sure what the final answer is, though.

There is nothing in the proposed constitutional amendment that would retroactively annul currently legal marriages.

Better would mean that Prop 8 would fail, allowing ALL people to get married.

I'm sure there will be a court battle to determine the answer to that question.

I hope that this horrible proposition fails so that all who come after may know the same joy they feel today.