While the wording is simple, the situation has quickly become complicated. One question: What happens to those same-sex couples who married prior to the ruling? Legal challenges filed on Wednesday raised other questions: Was the referendum process itself lawful? Does the new language conflict with other parts of the state constitution? Separately, should Prop. 8 opponents have filed challenges saying the proposition violated the U.S. Constitution?

Too many conservatives think we've seen all this before — in 1964 and 1974 and 1992 — and that we know how to handle it. Fly, meet ointment: We're not dealing with the same sorts of opponents. These New Alinskyites who are taking over the White House, combined with the most leftist congressional leadership in memory, will not let us play by the same rules under which conservatives recovered from those earlier debacles. They will try to drastically tilt the playing field, seed our side of the field with land mines and, in short, rig the process to make it next to impossible for the political right, or Republicans, to recover. And they are likely to succeed in at least some of these designs.

Saul Alinsky’s radicalism was expressed in his 1971 book, “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals.” In that book, Alinsky said, “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.” Alinsky never saw himself as the devil, but as some radical angel who could bedevil “the Establishment” and force it to change to assuage pressures from community organizations.
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The model for present day gay marriage protests

Reporting from Phoenix — Sarah Palin left the national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role on the ticket flared as aides to John McCain disclosed new details about her expensive wardrobe purchases and revealed that a Republican Party lawyer would be dispatched to Alaska to inventory and retrieve the clothes still in her possession.
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John McCain must take the initiative and defend Sarah Palin.Schmidt, Davis and Wallace will NEVER work again for a national GOP campaign. This is for sure.

Would these differences potentially impact a conversion statute? They might, though any impact would be minimal.

For instance, consider a hypothetical couple who married during the interim period, with one of the two being 16 or 17 years old and marrying with parent or guardian permission. That couple could legally marry, but they would not be eligible for a registered domestic partnership under the statute as now written. The same would apply to a couple who has never cohabited.

However, any conversion statute of the kind that Eugene suggests could simply provide an exception for any such cases. So these differences, while real, would likely have only minimal impact on any statutory conversion plan of the sort that Eugene has suggested.
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Very slight difference beetween domestic partnership and traditional marriage.

What Will Happen to California Same-Sex Marriages?
California voters seem to have enacted Prop. 8, a constitutional amendment that states, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." What happens to all the same-sex marriages that have already taken place? (Let's assume for now that the amendment is upheld as constitutional, at least as to future marriages — something that I think is quite likely.)
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Difficult to predict the California supreme Court but Professor Volokh lists the options