Three Sacramento men have been arrested after a beating that law enforcement officials describe as a hate crime against homosexuals…

The Thursday evening incident at a Sacramento gas station came just hours after the California Supreme Court issued a ruling overturning a state ban on same-sex marriages.

A 23-year-old Sacramento man was sitting with another man in a car near the station's restroom when the three suspects asked if he was a homosexual, Sacramento Police Officer Michelle Lazark said.

The man said he was. When he got out of the car, the three men beat and kicked him…

"It's a gay-bashing. Gay slurs were used before they commenced to beating him," she said…