California
governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will most likely face another
bill to legalize same-sex marriage in California, but most
fear he will take the same action he did with a
similar bill that came across his desk in 2005: veto
it.
State assemblyman
Mark Leno of San Francisco, who introduced the
bill two years ago, told the Long Beach
Press-Telegram that he was hopeful Schwarzenegger would
consider signing the bill. The assembly judiciary
committee is scheduled to consider the bill Tuesday.
"We're hopeful that he will understand why
it's important that he end the second-class
treatment of countless California families and
children," Leno said in the article.
In his 2005 veto
message, the governor wrote that the same-sex marriage
bill violated Proposition 22, a marriage equality ban
approved in 2000 by voters.
"I
don't want, as governor, to go against the will of
the people," Schwarzenegger said to high school
students who asked him about the bill in February.
Leno told the
Press-Telegram that the bill would not need
voter approval because it would amend a different section
of law than the proposition, which was on the ballot to
prevent California from recognizing same-sex marriages
performed elsewhere. (The Advocate)
