California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Sunday that the fight for gay marriage was not over in California and suggested the state Supreme Court may in fact overturn Proposition 8."It's unfortunate, obviously, but it's not the end," Schwarzenegger said of the measure's passage in a CNN interview, "because I think this will go back into the courts, this will go back to the Supreme Court and all this, because the Supreme Court very clearly in California has declared this unconstitutional. It’s the same as in the 1948 case when blacks and whites were not allowed to marry. This is — this falls into the same category. I think that we will again maybe undo that, if the court is willing to do that, and then move forward from there and again lead in that area."
Schwarzenegger's comments could mark a change in the governor's relationship with the issue of same-sex marriage, which he has mostly kept at arm's length in the past. Although the governor publicly voiced his opposition to the gay marriage ban, he fell far short of championing the issue and twice vetoed gay marriage bills passed by the state legislature, saying the issue was the province of the courts.
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