My hubby and I were stunned when we heard the Prop 8 news. As I understand it there are going to be challenges to it's legality and I hope that gets somewhere.
Where does that leave the 18,000+ couples that already married? I haven't heard what their status will be. Will they still be considered legally married or is it like it never happened? As far as I know a law cannot be passed retroactively. Legislation can't make a new law and apply it to anything that has already happened, only to new cases.
I know it might be little comfort but opinions are changing and progress will be made. It's the wait that's so aggravating. (Well that and the bigots, they are aggravating also.)
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Where does that leave the 18,000+ couples that already married? I haven't heard what their status will be. Will they still be considered legally married or is it like it never happened? As far as I know a law cannot be passed retroactively. Legislation can't make a new law and apply it to anything that has already happened, only to new cases.
I know it might be little comfort but opinions are changing and progress will be made. It's the wait that's so aggravating. (Well that and the bigots, they are aggravating also.)