The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has set up a special website with information about Perry v. Brown, the decision on the constitutionality of Proposition 8. Quoting from the three-page summary of today’s decision on that website:
All that Proposition 8 accomplished was to take away from same-sex couples the right to be granted marriage licenses and thus legally to use the designation of ‘marriage,’ which symbolizes state legitimization and societal recognition of their committed relationships. Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples. The Constitution simply does not allow for "laws of this sort." Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620. 633 (1996).