Gays’ marriage rights to be put to popular vote, California Supreme Court confirms
Reuters North American News Service

California voters will have the chance to vote in November on whether to end gay marriage after the state’s top court declined Wednesday to remove an initiative on the issue from the ballot.

In the latest phase of a bitter legal battle, supporters of homosexual marriage asked the California Supreme Court to remove the issue from the ballot. The court unanimously denied the petition without detailed comment.

The referendum will appear on the same ballot as the presidential and congressional elections. It requires a simple majority for approval.

“This is great news and not unexpected in light of the homosexual activists’ undemocratic, intolerant and extraordinary attack upon the voters’ right to vote,” the group’s president Randy Thomasson said in a statement.

California is the second U.S. state after Massachusetts to allow gay marriage, but is the only one to issue the licenses to couples from other states.

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