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not to defend it on appeal (much in the same way that the Obama Administration, in the wake of decisions striking down the Defense of Marriage Act, no longer defends the federal law). It was left to private opponents of same-sex marriage, folks who were proponents of Proposition 8, to take up the appeal. Not good enough, the Court said. "We have never before upheld the standing of a private party to defend the constitutionality of a state statute when state officials have chosen not to," wrote Chief Justice Roberts. "We decline to do so for the first time here."The dense, technical language of the Perry decision -- both the majority ruling and the dissent by Justice Anthony Kennedy -- belie the significance of what the case means. It means that same-sex marriage now may resume in California. It means that those thousands of same-sex couples who were married before Proposition 8 passed in 2008 may no longer live under the shadow of a ballot initiative that sought to nullify those marriages.