“The request for an initiative will not become moot when the act becomes law,” Roberts wrote. “On the contrary, the D.C. Court of Appeals will have the chance to consider the relevant legal questions on their merits, and petitioners will have the right to challenge any adverse decision through a petition for certiorari in this Court at the appropriate time.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/02/AR2010030201811.html

I think the conservatives on the court have a lonnng view towards the future, and the impact they can have on it. And I also believe that Roberts, Alito etc would have NO PROBLEM overturning hundreds of thousands of same-sex marriages in America sometime in the future. Or, as they like to call them: homosexual *marriages*. Coincidentally, this would uphold the authority of major ruling religious figures: the Catholic Pope, the Mormon Church, etc etc the list goes on.

I’ve predicted that when the lawsuit against Proposition 8 finally reaches the Supreme Court, the justices would likely split 5-4 to strike it down.

Now, in the wake of Justice Roberts’ decision not to overturn D.C.’s same-gender marriage law, I can only wonder if the high court’s eventual Prop. 8 ruling could go 6-3 against the voter-approved measure.