In a defeat for gay-rights groups, California's Supreme Court ruled today (November 17, 2011) that the state's anti-gay-marriage amendment (Proposition 8) could be legally defended in court, even if the state refused to enforce it.
According to the Daily Beast website, the ruling will most likely send gay-rights groups to federal court to decide whether state marriage bans are constitutional.
While the California governor and attorney general had refused to enforce the gay-marriage ban, state officials challenged it to keep it in the books.
A judge had ruled last December that the ban is unconstitutional.
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