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Gays Can Marry In California - Yay!
California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban - Los Angeles Times
This is great news. I have gay friends and a gay cousin-in-law. Loving, gay couples will now get to do what all loving couples should be able to do in the first place, get equal protection under the law. Of course, within minutes of the decision, the wheels of many anti-gay marriage advocates were already turning, their minds a collective raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives on how best to scuttle this decision (I’d like to thank Hedley Lamarr).
You’d think these people would have better things to do. Their main argument against gay marriage is that it is not specifically enumerated in the state constitution. Interracial marriage wasn’t at the time that decision was made either, but it’s worked out just fine. I want to know how it possibly effects these anti-gay holes. Gay folks in California already had most of the rights of married couples under the Domestic Partnership statute, but the court said in its decision:
Giving a different name, such as “domestic partnership,” to the “official family relationship” of same-sex couples imposes “appreciable harm” both on the couples and their children, the court said.
The distinction might cast “doubt on whether the official family relationship of same-sex couples enjoys dignity equal to that of opposite-sex couples,” George wrote, joined by Justices Joyce L. Kennard, Kathryn Mickle Werdegar and Carlos R. Moreno.
Amen to that. One of the reasons people get married is to celebrate their union and share it with friends and family. Calling it something other than what it is demeans the relationship.
The only way that this could possibly effect anti-gay marriage frigtards is that it makes them feel all oogy inside. i.e., they don’t like public displays of affection between same sex couples because it makes them feel uncomfortable. I think this feeling of ooginess extends more to seeing gay males necking on a park bench, for example, rather than the more “acceptable” lesbian form of the same thing. Most people can handle hot, girl-on-girl action, but when it comes to guys…
Get over it.
It’s not the gay community’s job to make us who are not gay feel all warm and fuzzy inside. They have the right to live their lives like everyone else. Let me spell it out for you; there are no legions of gay people wearing pink Klan outfits breaking into people’s homes in the dead of night, taking your marriage partners at gunpoint and replacing them with a same sex equivalent.
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Yes! Another victory for love, freedom, and communication among human beings. Every time I hear the old “against nature” argument, I want to know: what nature? The one here on earth is pretty flexible.
Matt, of course, oogy is a technical term…
The only way that this could possibly effect anti-gay marriage frigtards is that it makes them feel all oogy inside.
I get the same feeling from peanut butter…
I absolutely agree. It is fine time this happened and given the gay populations in West Hollywood, San Francisco and Palm Springs (Yes, PS has a very active and open gay community, huge as well). I also admit to the joy seeing the conservative blowhards going into conniptions over this. The people have spoken and so has the judges. Get over it as my learned colleague said.