As I have stated in previous posts, the only way to legalize same-sex marriage is through the people or the legislature.  States who use the court's opinion to magically make law know darn well that it is the only way they will get same-sex marriage because their people nor their legislatures will pass it.  Two states have recently failed, both legally and illegally, to get same-sex marriage a law.

Gay marriage advocates were hoping that the California Supreme Court would again give a do-over on the same-sex marriage ban that was passed by the people.  No such luck this time.  Perhaps those judges have finally realized that they do not make law.  That is why their decision to let the 18,000 gay couples who wed between their first decision and Proposition 8 is so ludicrous.  Same-sex marriage was never the law in the first place so why was there even a discussion whether or not to let them stay "wed?"

The next state who tried to pass gay marriage was New Hampshire.  I'll give this state credit because it was trying to implement this law according to the Constitution, but the Governor threw a road block out when he promised to veto the bill if it didn't contain language that protected churches who refused to wed homosexuals due to religious beliefs from lawsuits.  The bill should have easily passed the Democratic House, but it did not.  Why?  Because they hate the thought of protecting the freedom of religion and speech so much that they voted down their own bill because of that language.  An openly gay senator led in opposing the bill.  So much for only wanting equal rights and tolerance.