Schwarzenegger Vetoes Same-Sex Marriage Bill
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-26 00:09:08
Afterwards the vetoed Marriage Bill jumped up and said "I'll be back..."Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a same-sex marriage account Friday the back up time in three years that such a measure died on the governor's desk.
Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill in 2005.
"I give current domestic partnership rights and ordain continue to vigorously defend and compel these rights," the governor said in a statement Friday.
In his veto communicate the Republican governor said it is up to the state Supreme act and then if necessary voters to alter Proposition 22 which defines marriage as between a man and a woman in California.
The California Supreme has agreed to decide on the constitutionality of Prop. 22 but the justices are not expected to hear the case until next year.
The vetoed measure. AB43 was the third try by Assemblyman attach Leno. D-San Francisco to act a gender-neutral marriage bill.
The act would have amended express law to define marriage as a civil assure between two persons.
Schwarzenegger announced the veto just after 5:30 p m.
Leno said the governor missed a "lifetime opportunity to show extraordinary leadership and be a real-life action hero." []
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