Apparently my vote doesn't matter to the California Supreme Court! - UPDATED.

So back when I was a California voter I voted in favor of a ban to start gay marriage in California. To me it is a matter of preserving the tradition of what a sacred marriage is as defined by God in His word. In a day and age where divorce is the biggest disaster to marriages, I didn't want to see anything more soil and ruin what marriage means. I know it doesn't change my own marriage, but I do see both as making marriage seem like a joke. I don't want my commitment to my love to seem like a joke.

I'm disappointed with Arnold Schwarzenegger who is saying he won't stop this. Back when he was running for office he had a completely different stance on this matter. Can we say "flip-flopper!?"

Here is the information from the AP as reported by FoxNews.com. Thursday, May 15, 2008.

"SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry.

The justices released the 4-3 decision Thursday, saying that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage in an opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George.

The cases were brought by the city of San Francisco, two dozen gay and lesbian couples, Equality California and another gay rights group in March 2004 after the court halted San Francisco's monthlong same-sex wedding march that took place at Mayor Gavin Newsom's direction."

Now what I find peculiar is I was actually in California this last Thursday. I don't remember seeing ANY news about this at all then. Now granted, when I'm visiting with family I'm not watching the news anywhere near as much as I do, but I would have thought the info would have come up at some point. So what does this seem to mean? Were they trying to give themselves time on the decision before making it public, kind of like the cooling off period with buying a house or a car? I'm sorry, but if you are going to change the voice of the voters don't you owe it to them to release the info right away? I'm not saying anything is shady, just that it doesn't rub me right. I suppose if I had heard the news when they made the decision I might not have left for home as soon as I did and had gone to the capitol to make my protest known. Then again, what voice does a Washingtonian who was run out of California (because of it's cost of life) have on the matter. Am I just blabbing to the breeze. It just bugs me, I take my right as a voter seriously. And now I've seen the California Supreme court basically tell me that my vote was stupid to them and they want to just ignore it.

Update:

One more quick read on the matter is here.