{"id":446,"date":"2010-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2010\/08\/calif-gay-marriages-on-hold-un.html"},"modified":"2010-08-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T00:00:00","slug":"calif-gay-marriages-on-hold-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/communitynews\/2010\/08\/calif-gay-marriages-on-hold-un.html","title":{"rendered":"Calif. Gay Marriages On Hold Until Aug. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Judge Vaughn Walker who last week overturned California&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/beliefnet_circle_of_reason\/go\/thread\/view\/47861\/25566805\/#460863969\">gay marriage ban<\/a> agreed Thursday  to a continued <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/44011\/25606473\/Judge_gives_the_green_light_for_same-sex_marriage_in_California\">hold until at least Wednesday<\/a> (Aug. 18) to give opponents time to appeal.<br \/>\nIf the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/\">9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals<\/a> doesn&#8217;t act by 5 p.m. local time that day, then <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/44011\/25543657\/Judge_rules_Californias_ban_on_same-sex_marriage_is_UNCONSTITUTIONAL\">gay couples<\/a> can wed, the Associated Press reported Thursday.<br \/>\n&#8220;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,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hOiMLmsztmiGlNvjNLQLw4N41h1QD9HI5F0G2\">AP reported<\/a>. &#8220;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.&#8221;<br \/>\nPost your thoughts about last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/59723\/25543361\/California_Gay_Marriage_Ban_Ruled_Unconstitutional\">ruling <\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/44011\/25606473\/Judge_gives_the_green_light_for_same-sex_marriage_in_California\">temporary stay<\/a> on<a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/59723\/25551097\/California_ruling_puts_Obama_on_spot___(Is_the_Culture_War_back)\"> same-sex marriages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Judge Vaughn Walker who last week overturned California&#8217;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&#8217;t act by 5 p.m. local time that day, then gay couples can wed, the Associated Press&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-beliefnet"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Calif. 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