California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a same-sex "marriage" bill on Friday, giving pro-family groups a second win in the battle to protect traditional marriage in the state.
The measure, if signed, would have defined marriage as a union between "two persons" rather than a man and a woman, granting homosexual couples the same rights and benefits as married heterosexual couples. Schwarzenegger said voters and the state Supreme Court, not lawmakers, should decide the issue.
Schwarzenegger turned down a similar bill in 2005. Gay rights advocates denounced the veto and accused the governor of hypocrisy....
