Governor Schwarzenegger a latecomer to marriage equality

Hours after Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision on California’s Proposition 8, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a supportive statement saying the ruling “is by no means California’s first milestone, nor our last, on America’s road to equality and freedom for all people.” San Francisco Chronicle’s Hank Plante writes: “You’d never know this was the same governor who vetoed same-sex marriage twice after it was passed by the State Legislature in 2005 and 2007 (the first times a legislature has done so in American history).