Here is an update <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->In California, with 95 percent of precincts reporting Wednesday, the ban had 5,125,752 votes, or 52 percent, while there were 4,725,313 votes, or 48 percent, opposed.<br /><br />Similar bans had prevailed in 27 states before Tuesday&#39;s elections, but none were in California&#39;s situation — with about 18,000 gay couples married since a state Supreme Court ruling in May. The state attorney general, Jerry Brown, has said those marriages will remain valid, although legal challenges are possible.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />So until the law suits are filed..... we are &quot;valid&quot;... you have got to love the power of single words.