The Associated Press is reporting that in a 4-3 decision the California Supreme Court has overturned a voter approved ban on gay marriages and declared that the domestic partnerships allowed by the State of California are not a good enough substitute.
The decision came in a case filed by the City of San Francisco and two dozen gay couples and gay rights groups after the court put a halt to the gay marriages being performed in San Francisco’s City Hall following Mayor Gavin Newsom's approval of such ceremonies in 2004.
But, as usual, the battle isn’t over. Right wing religious and other socially conservative groups are trying to get a measure on the ballot in November banning gay marriage in the state constitution and the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal outfit representing them, has asked the court to defer its ruling until after the November election.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has already announced that he would not support a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court ruling.
Let the games begin as California joins Massachusetts and New Jersey in jumping off the crumbling wall of homosexual discrimination.
I figure that the right wing will have as much success as it had in Massachusetts and New Jersey reversing the trend as well.
Meanwhile, please note that floods and lightning bolts indicating the wrath of God have not descended upon Massachusetts and New Jersey nor has society there collapsed into an anarchy of sexual perversions worthy of Sodom and Gomorrah because equal rights have been extended to gay couples.
Exactly why religious conservatives, and especially conservative Christians, feel it necessary to codify discrimination into the laws of the nation is beyond me and something for which I’ve never seen anything approaching an adequate explanation.
Anyway, hurrah for the Blue State of California.
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