Things in California, on the gay marriage front, will not be changing for some time. The ban on same sex marriage is all set to continue after very few signatures were gathered to secure a vote on whether to keep or dump the highly controversial legislation, known far and wide as Proposition 8.

The Love Honor Cherish campaign tried its best to gather all 700,000 signatures, but failed miserably. Looks like the dream to push Proposition 8, the law that had banned gay marriage in California in November 2008, is going to remain just that for quite some time, a dream.

The campaigners have to now wait until 2012 to once again raise an objection, and that is a mighty long wait, we say! Especially since there has been too much of waiting already.

The controversial issue of same-sex marriage has been the hot topic in California for many years now, and many consider it the most high-profile and followed battle in the US. While gay couples were awarded the right to marry back in 2008, the opposers raised a major hue and cry about the same that they succeeded in striking the whole deal down.

And the issue has been a huge one since then.

While we are sure that the opposers have good reasons to continually resist the possibility of same sec marriages being legalized, it definitely something that questions individual preferences and hurt sentiments.

America is a free country, and that is what politicians time and again insist. So why do some residents of this very country end up facing no freedom of choice or expression?

Instead of trying to suppress people, the authorities should focus on trying to make things easier for them!