California Gay Marriage Case

Today is a great day for civil rights! Calif. Supreme Court rules that it is unconstitutional to prohibit gay marriage.

[I]n light of the conclusions we reach concerning the constitutional questions brought to us for resolution, we determine that the language of section 300 limiting the designation of marriage to a union “between a man and a woman” is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute, and that the remaining statutory language must be understood as making the designation of marriage available both to opposite-sex and same-sex couples. In addition, because the limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples imposed by section 308.5 can have no constitutionally permissible effect in light of the constitutional conclusions set forth in this opinion, that provision cannot stand. (source)

Congratulations to California!

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 12:25 pm and is filed under Civil Liberties. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to California Gay Marriage Case

  1. Robert says:
    May 15, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    The weird thing is that people are surprised that CA would do something like this or that it gets this much news. At this point, wouldn’t most people just be “ah, so, those craaaaazy CA-ians are at it again” towards us? I suppose its just the latest “outrage” from a long line of “outrages” that we’ve committed. Then again, I’m constantly reminded during my studies that the CA-mindset is the exception as opposed to the rule.

    Now to see if the Ghost Busters scenario happens (“Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!”).