In the face of Tuesday’s decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declaring California’s Proposition 8 as a violation of the Constitution’s Due Process and Equal Protection clauses, reactions ranged from outright celebratory to more cautious as the potential to progress to the Supreme Court and become a nationally-…

A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a California constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. The three-judge panel voted 2-1, upholding retired U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling that the law, better known as Proposition 8, unconstitutional. Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, wrote…