California Supreme Court denies petition to stop distribution of gay ‘marriage’ licenses
SACRAMENTO, CA , July 24, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The California Supreme Court has denied a clerk's petition that he not be forced to issue same-sex “marriage” licenses until a court clarify whether it is legal for him to do so. San Diego County Clerk Ernest Dronenburg, who issues marriage licenses for a living, filed suit to seek “legal clarification” that he was acting according to legal norms. Ernest Dronenburg asked the court to guide him, without success Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris ordered the state to begin issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples who request them following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the state's voters lacked standing to defend Proposition 8 , the constitutional amendment voters approved defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. However, the Supreme Court did not rule on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 itself. Article III, Section 3.5 of the California Constitutio