California’s supreme court backed a ban on gay marriage on Tuesday, ruling that a voter-approved proposition defining marriage as between a man and a woman could stand in the trend-setting state.
The court, which last year opened the way for same-sex unions, said the roughly 18,000 marriages that took place before the November ban could stand.
The ban spurred nationwide protests, and the court’s decision is unlikely to be the last move in what is seen as a battleground state in U.S. culture wars.
