Lawmakers vote to support gay marriage - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee: It may prove to be nothing more than an empty gesture, but three days before the issue goes before the state supreme court, California lawmakers resolved that Prop 8 was bogus. Improper. A violation of the separation of powers. A Republican assemblyman complained that the resolution only serves to further politicize the issue of gay marriage. That assemblyman's name, I kid you not, is Van