In the Name of Love

I'm no lawyer, but I don't understand how what just happened in California with gay marriage.

To recap: California made gay marriage legal. Then a group of gay haters drafted Proposition 8 which proposed to make gay marriage illegal. They managed to get their proposition on the ballot in California and voters indeed voted to make gay marriage illegal.

Here's where it gets weird: All the gay people who got married in that little window of time when it was legal are still legally married, it's just that no new gay marriages can be performed in California.

Regardless, gay marriages that are legal in the states they were performed may be deemed NOT legal in states that refuse to recognize them.

Huh? Supreme Court Case Loving vs. Virginia once and for all made it illegal for states to refuse to recognize a valid marriage between people of different races. In other words, if a mixed-race couple was married legally in Connecticut, the Supreme Court ruled that Georgia had to recognize that marriage as valid, even if they really didn't want to.

Why doesn't this hold up for gay marriages? How can my gay friends who went to California to be legally married not be recognized as married here in Kansas? And how can California one day sanction gay marriages and then make them illegal the next? Isn't the very idea of that .... illegal?

Seems to me that with a monumental case like Loving vs. Virginia on the books, it's just a matter of time before some brave gay couple takes its complaint all the way to the Supreme Court and rights this wrong.