Federal Judge Vaughn Walker who last week overturned California’s gay marriage ban agreed Thursday to a continued hold until at least Wednesday (Aug. 18) to give opponents time to appeal.
If the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals doesn’t act by 5 p.m. local time that day, then gay couples can wed, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

“Walker also turned aside arguments that marriages performed now could be thrown into legal chaos if Proposition 8 is later upheld by an appeals court,” the AP reported. “But Walker said such weddings would appear to be legal even if the ban is later reinstated. He pointed to the 18,000 same-sex couples who married legally in the five months that gay marriage was legal in California as proof.”
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