The change favoring gay marriage has been coming fast and strong in just a few years, and there is some impatience with getting this latest civil rights revolutuion legitimized in full. But there is some real legal controversy whether voters can deny marriage now that it has been acknowledged as a right in practical effect. Some have likened it to the allowance of interracial marriage. Once the right is realized, voters cannot come back and take it away, at least not without a full amendment which would require a super-majority. In this case, the Calif. court seems to be drawing a very fine line, and giving the gay rights people just about everything except the name. This is a lot, but it's easy to understand the annoyance - it's going to happen and it's just a matter of time.