It shouldn't come as any surprise that the same cadre of judges who decided that they should impose their beliefs on the residents of Californian on what marriage should be would choose to create maximum chaos in that imposition.

The state Supreme Court declined Wednesday to delay its decision allowing same sex couples to marry and said that their ruling clearing the way for gays and lesbians to wed will become effective June 16 at 5 p.m.

The court acted on requests from same-sex marriage opponents who asked the justices for a rehearing on the case and to stay the high court's historic May 15 decision striking down state matrimony laws that allowed only heterosexual couples to marry.

Opponents wanted a delay until after the November election, when a ballot measure that would reverse the court's decision will be before voters.

The court voted 4-3 not to issue a stay.

The vote Wednesday split the same way as the votes in the May 15 decision. Chief Justice Ron George and associate justices Joyce Kennard, Carlos Moreno and Kathryn Werdegar voted to deny the rehearing and the stay. Associate Justices Marvin Baxter, Ming Chin and Caroll Corrigan voted to grant them.

The prudential thing to do would've been to wait until voters had their say. Instead there is a very real possibility that you will have a bunch of gay couples in some quasi-legal wonderland should they get married in the next 4 1/2 months and then have the people of the state of California reverse this anti-democratic action.

Their arrogance knows no bounds.