Oh, this is going to stir things up! Update 1

The California Supreme Court has spoken.  California ban on same sex marriage is struck down.  Much to everyone's amazement because the majority of the justices are Republican appointees.

Here in the SF Bay Area, ok so Sonoma Co is the outer edge of the Bay Area, there is dancing in the streets and fear.  Count me in, it's about time.  There is no reason my gay and lesbian friends should not have the same right and responibilies of marriage that LR and I have.

You can understand the dancing in the streets, the fear is a bit more nebulous.  Many people are worried that the Repubs will now use this as an issue to get votes for McCain.  Because. omg, judges are legislating from the bench again!  I don't understand the whole legislating from the bench concept myself.  It seems like a pretty straight up interpretation of the law but then I'm not a lawyer or a conservative pundit.

I actually heard someone on KGO radio today say that because same sex marriage will be legal in 30 days people will start waking up in the morning and deciding that they are gay/lesbian and leave their marriage and children.  Oh and now the law requires gay marriage.  Um, WHAT?  How do you get there from here?  We also have the obligatory slippery slope guy.  If 2 gay men can marry why can't 3, what about marrying your dog, etc.?  And the this will threaten heterosexual marriage!  Frankly if my, or any heterosexual marriage, is threatened by gay marriage we've got big troubles to begin with.

I'll stop here because I'm listening and reading.  I may update, I may not.

TTFA

(ta ta for now, thank you Winnie the Pooh)

Update 1 - the radio speaker was Randy Thomasson, founder and president of theCampaign for Children and Families; they are the group responsible for the ballot push against gay marriage 

Comments

[Jen @ amazingtrips]

I totally agree re: gay rights. To the slippery slope guy ... people and dogs don't have children together.

I have a lot of friends (women mostly) that have borne and are raising children together and I think it's a travesty that if something should happen to one >> the other wouldn't be able to receive any of their benefits.

So, yeah, I think they deserve all the same rights as any one else.