In his first press call with LGBT media outlets since being sworn in as the state's first openly gay Assembly speaker, John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles) said that there is "no practical way" to repeal the state's anti-same-sex marriage ban this year.

The comments are likely a fatal blow to the fledgling grassroots efforts to place a repeal measure of Proposition 8 before California voters in the fall. Already the majority of the state's LGBT rights groups had decided it makes more political sense to seek repeal of Prop 8 in 2012.