Gay Marriage Allowed in CA- for Now
May 15, 2008
Hurray! Today, California’s State Supreme Court ruled that the state’s anti-marriage laws were discriminatory. And, believe it or not, the Governator has agreed to respect the Court’s decision and said that he would oppose a Constitutional Amendment banning Gay Marriage.
Today’s ruling by the Republican-dominated court affects more than 100,000 same-sex couples in the state, about a quarter of whom have children, according to U.S. census figures. It came after high courts in New York, Washington and New Jersey refused to extend marriage rights to gay couples. Before today, only Massachusetts’ top court has ruled in favor of permitting gays to wed.
[...] Schwarzenegger, who has vetoed two measures that would have authorized same-sex marriage, today said he would abide by the court’s ruling.
“I respect the court’s decision and as governor, I will uphold its ruling,” he said in a statement. “Also, as I have said in the past, I will not support an amendment to the constitution that would overturn this state Supreme Court ruling.”
Of course, the religious freaks who are opposed to love matches between members of the same sex are saying the ruling is good for them. They say that the people who are really against gay marriage will now see how much of a threat it really is to the holy union of one man and one woman.
Give me a break. Really. Are heterosexual people really afraid that equal rights for gay couples would do some kind of harm to their own ability to stay married? Or somehow impede their ascent to Heaven when God comes back and strikes up the Armageddon band? Pfft.
Consider that 30-50% of marriages[PDF] (heterosexual, of course) will end in divorce (or have ended, but we’ll just stay with the “will end”) eventually. I’m not going to dig through a lot of data to look at how long marriages survive on average, because it’s only important to this particular point that they don’t always survive. For whatever reason, couples (heterosexual) break up, the family is torn apart and the kids’ lives are irreparably damaged1. This doesn’t even account for the couples (heterosexual) who never marry and yet create families that they will eventually tear asunder for no doubt purely selfish reasons. People can’t stay married. Laws have been changed to make it easier for them to either not marry at all (and therefore fornicate like unclean beasts) or throw their marriage vows right down the toilet without so much as a “God, Please forgive me.”
Who is to blame for this? HUH? Who is causing society all these problems and making these people separate? Why are divorces even legal? Do these irresponsible, self-centered people even know what the hell they’re doing to our society? What’s going on? It’s Teh Gays, that’s who!!
Oh, wait. I forgot. Gays/Lesbians/etc haven’t been able to marry so they haven’t shown the rest of us the joys and evils of divorce, causing us to leave our spouses, corrupt our children and damn our own souls to an eternal and fiery Hell. Neither are they allowed to show us the joys and benefits of staying together forever, because we’re so damned self-absorbed and concerned about the “ick” factor that we can’t stand the thought of what they might do on their honeymoon. God forbid we have to actually *gag* see them kiss and/or show other forms of affection. Think about the CHILDREN! We have to save the children!
Unfortunately, Ohio is still a separate and not equal marriage state, but I’m hopeful that when residents here see that California isn’t incinerated by the Big Dude in the sky they’ll change all that. When they realize that seeing a someone being in love with someone else of the same sex isn’t going to cause their own eyeballs to melt right out of their sockets maybe this can become a “historical equal rights issue”. You know, like when Blacks weren’t allowed to Marry whites and women weren’t allowed to vote2.
Amendments be damned. Let the people love and marry and show those flippin’ pearl clutchers that this isn’t going to be the end of their marriages. That “friend” the husband is chatting with might be though.
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May 15th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
My fave anti-gay dumbarsery: “If you let gays marry, then soon people will be marrying their doggies!”
I got all excited about this too, but then I remembered that California passed a M/F only marriage thingie a while back, which means that maybe an amendment will pass if they put one up.
It is probably true that if you make gayness more acceptable, then some people in the mushy middle of the sexuality spectrum who might have half-heartedly stayed straight will now half-heartedly go gay. And to that I say: SO WHAT?
Why are people such busybody voyeurs?
‘Kay. Got to get back to my romance novel now. Bai.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Someone at work has a bumper sticker that says something to the effect “Save traditional marriage and support the Marriage Act” or something like that. Same as you, I always wonder what we were saving traditional marriage from. As you mentioned, divorce rates are huge already. How much more could you break it?
Besides, I’ve always felt that homosexuals should have the right to be as miserable as the rest of us so let them get married.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I lived around San Francisco when the mayor opened the doors to city hall and started everything. I remember watching on tv an older lesbian couple crying with joy because they had been together for 50 years and never imagined that they would be able to get married. I bawled my head off it was so cute and heartbreaking.
I used to be a dog walker down there and many of my clients were lesbian and gay couples. A lot of them had their marriage certificates framed and hanging on their walls. I always felt so happy and proud of where I lived whenever I would see one.
I saw these people every day. Many of them were my friends and just amazing people. I never have been able to understand how people could be so closed minded and heartless towards people they don’t even know and that aren’t hurting anyone.