Good news from home

[cyrano]

This afternoon, the court ruled Proposition Eight unconstitutional*. I'm not exactly a romantic, but I'm all verklempt anyway. The marriages can't get started again yet, as the judge put a stay on the injunction for now, but legal precedence has been set that there is no evidence to support the idea that same-sex marriages are harmful to the state or its constituents.
Perhaps the next step in protecting families should be that bill to outlaw divorce.


*For those of you who aren't from California and don't pay attention to politics, back when Gavin Newsome was the mayor he set up a city convention where same-sex marriage was defined as perfectly legal. About 18.000 marriages were performed before the state came down and told him to please stop. Not, however, before a portion of the California populace was inflamed by the rising up of concentrated ungodliness and composed Proposition Eight which would forbid California from legalising their own or recognising other same-sex marriages. Prop Eight passed by a small margin, and was pretty much immediately taken to court over its constitutionality, especially concerning California's 'Equal Protection' clause of the constitution. This, nearly two years later, is the issue before the court.

Comments

[wildpaletz.livejournal.com]

My friends in Massachusetts would scold me if I did not note that Massachusetts has had legal gay marriage for years.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

And I have been admiring Massachusetts on that count for years.