w00t w00t booyah

That was my take too; the CSC basically went "We have to take away the word marriage because of Prop 8, but we're not touching the state of *being* married, the state will just have to call it something else for same-sex couples. Except those 18,000 who got in before this and are grandfathered in. Oh, and by the way? Their civil unions? They still have to be de-facto marriages with all the rights of marriages under state law, even if the state can't call it that. You get the word though; enjoy your win."