disneydude
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Either you consider gay marriage a constitutional right, or you don't.
If you do, then every one of these states took away a constitutional right by majority vote.
If you don't, then no constitutional right was taken away in any situation.
What CA did was exactly the same as what everyone else did - the CA court just got there before the legislature did.
Whether I, you or anyone else personally consider something to be a "Constitutional Right" is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is, that is something that is either for the Courts or the Legislature in the form of an Amendment.
The California Constitutional right recognized gay marriage as a Constitutional right which was then eliminated by a 50% +1 popular vote. A dangerous precedent for other Constitutional rights. But Prop 8 remains the only time where a Constitutional right has been eliminated by a popular vote.