Taken from CBS News:
The long-awaited court decision stemmed from San Francisco’s highly publicized same-sex weddings, which in 2004 helped spur a conservative backlash in a presidential election year and a national dialogue over gay rights.
….Today’s ruling by the Republican-dominated court affects more than 100,000 same-sex couples in the state, about a quarter of whom have children, according to U.S. census figures.
Link to the Article, Link to the official documents.
In my opinion, this is great. California has set an exemplary precedent, now let’s get the conservative states to open their minds a bit.