Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog.
The California Supreme Court released their ruling on Proposition 8. Their ruling was unsurprising, uninspired, and lacked any originality.
There’s a video at the end of this post that appropriately anchors my feelings.
Then there are whackjobs who want to go to the local U.S. consulate or Embassy to protest. Really… will that actually do anything? No! The court won’t change its mind. And if Canada had done something like this, no one would be protesting at our Embassies or Consulates. Protests are so 1998. Try something more creative, like YouTube. Read more... (461 words, 1 image, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)
April 16, 2009 – 11:45 am
Wow, could the world have gone more topsy-turvey or what?
First Iowa, and then Vermont legalized same-sex marriage. Vermont being the first U.S. state to do so by their legislature. Hopefully New York will be the second. New Hampshire is also considering a bill to legalize marriage. Let’s not forget that D.C. voted to recognize marriages performed elsewhere.
So what changed?
What changed between Proposition 8 in California, and the ruling in Iowa? What happened in Vermont that lead to them not only passing a bill to legalize, but to also miraculously override the Governor’s veto? Read more... (226 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)
March 14, 2009 – 12:17 pm
This morning, with the court due to give it’s decision at any moment, I decided to do some further research and ran into this little gem. Don’t focus on the fact that it is for or against prop 8; the reason it’s important is his point that the court has been placed in an impossible position. And… he’s right; no matter how they choose, no matter what they decide, they are going to tick off people on both sides of the issue, and are going to be in constitutional hot water. They are in an impossible position, and I pity them!
As long as we’re discussing gay marriage, let’s bring up the Californian bombshell of Proposition 8.
Now, I’m not much of an activist, so I’ll ignore the obvious horror of homophobia. I’ll even ignore the legal contradiction that 18,000 people have been placed in, being engaged in legally recognized and valid homosexual marriage in a state that no longer recognizes homosexual marriages. (Mind you, that’s going to be a fun thing because the Supreme Court certainly appears to have more or less made up its mind that those marriages remain valid, regardless of whether or not prop 8 actually gets overturned. So we’ve got a really nice legal contradiction that someone, somewhere, can probably use as a chink in prop 8′s armor). Read more... (466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)
