I may be a little logic-challenged, and I certainly know nothing about "The Law." However, looking at the current status of things... (You can look, too! The full text of the judge's orders are posted here: https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv2292/ ) ...it seems that there are two separate things in play.

1) Proposition 8 has been found to be unconstitutional, and is, hence, unenforceable.

2) (and this is separate) The judge's order, enjoining the enforcement of Prop 8, is what has been stayed until 5 pm PDT on Wednesday, August 18. In other words, he's already found the law unconstitutional and invalid, but has stayed his injunction which orders them not to continue to enforce it.

Arnold Schwarzenneger and Jerry Brown have both said they have zero interest in enforcing Prop 8. So... adding 2 and 2 and getting 11 1/2, I ask, why do they have to? I mean, if they don't want to enforce Prop 8 (now found to be unconstitutional) and deny marriage certificates to people otherwise entitled to them, who's going to make them?

I have this daydream in mind... Arnold is sitting behind a big, polished mahogany desk in the Governor's office, looking a bit angry and defiant, in that Hollywood-Arnold way of his, blustering and waving his hand at his underlings, "I don't care! F**k the stay! Just start issuing them! Who's going to stop us, those weak girly-men* who got their asses kicked in court trying to defend that piece of crap? That law is dead, history! Why do we have to be ordered to stop obeying it? That makes no sense! Until something changes, just stop screwing around and issue the damned licenses. Got it?"

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* Note the ironic employment of one of his favorite old insults, to refer this time to those (the proponents of Proposition 8) who are afraid of letting same-sex couples marry.

If a picture is worth 1000 words, this is at least part of my story.

I'm a firm believer in tracing things as close to their source as possible. Here is the essay as printed on the author's, Jeff Goode's, own website:

http://www.jeffgoode.com/politicalsatire/traditionalmarriage...

As you can see at the top of the page, it's an article he wrote for the Huffington Post and was published in November of 2008, on the eve of the election.