Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Governor Vetoes Gay (Same Sex) Marriage Bill

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (L) speaks to Sun Microsystems employees during a town hall style meeting at the Sun Microsystems plant in Menlo Park, California September 28, 2005.

The ASSociated Press has Schwarzenegger Vetoes Gay Marriage Bill.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger followed through Thursday on his promise to veto a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, leaving the issue up to voters or judges who will likely face the volatile issue in the next year.

“This bill simply adds confusion to a constitutional issue,” the Republican governor said in a veto message.

Schwarzenegger had announced his intention on Sept. 7, a day after the Legislature became the first in the country to approve a bill allowing gays and lesbians to wed.

Schwarzenegger said the bill by Democratic Assemblyman Mark Leno contradicted Proposition 22, which was approved by voters in 2000 and said only a marriage between a man and woman is valid.

The governor said the state constitution bars the Legislature from enacting a law allowing gay marriage without another vote by the public and that Leno’s bill wouldn’t provide for that vote.

Whatever…..better to say you are against Gay Marriage, Governor.