Los Angeles, Calif., May 22, 2009 / 14:38 pm
The California Supreme Court has announced that next Tuesday it will issue its ruling on the three cases challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the successful California ballot measure which restored the legal definition of marriage to be a union between a man and a woman.
An announcement on the California Court's web site said the high court will issue its ruling on the cases on Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time.
The ruling will also decide the status of about 18,000 homosexual couples who were “married” last summer.
Proposition 8 was proposed in response to the court’s decision last spring to mandate the recognition of homosexual “marriages.”
On March 5 the California Supreme Court heard oral arguments in support of and in opposition to Proposition 8.