My post on a Yahoo! news story "Many blacks shrug off Obama's new view on gays"

[johnlucas]

49. California's Prop 8 was a constitutional amendment too

That's why I checked Wikipedia before I wrote that.
Proposition 8 was made part of the California Constitution before it was struck down.
They're exactly the same. A ballot proposition meant to become state constitutional law.

It will be overturned. If not by the state then by the federal.
Obama's public statement is the clue. And sure he's doing that pathetic half-measure thing by saying "left up to the states" but this can & will "evolve" too. I never believed he really had a problem with gays marrying.
He's being strategic in his statement like a true politician but the change is coming.
The demographics demand it.

By him going full out like that AFTER that bigoted amendment was passed is a GOOD thing.
If he said it before it passed & then it passed then it would make him look like a loser supporting as losing cause.
By coming out (ha!) AFTERWARDS he galvanizes the non-bigoted nation to push out those who would enact similar measures.
You were already going to fight after the amendment passed but NOW you will fight that much harder to change not just these bigoted policies but Obama himself.

That amendment won't last, trust me. And it will be based on the same reasoning seen in the same constitutional amendment passed by California through a similar ballot proposition.
John Lucas