No, baby, this is the future you signed up for.
Three cheers for the full faith and credit clause. May the implementation of America some day match the spec. We're a pinheaded gaggle of religious bigots, but we've got a good mission statement.
Quoting the decision:
"Barred access to the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage, a person who enters into an intimate, exclusive union with another of the same sex is arbitrarily deprived of membership in one of our community's most rewarding and cherished institutions. That exclusion is incompatible with the constitutional principles of respect for individual autonomy and equality under law."
Note the utter lack of gobbledygook about marriage being about "family" and "children" and "traditional values." This is one of the great issues in the so-called culture war. THEY believe that marriage is about children. WE believe that marriage is about adults. WE are right. THEY are wrong.
And a fight is coming. A big one. Make no fucking mistake, this is going to be ugly. Ugly. Ugly. Ugly. And necessary. And right. And unavoidable. And ugly.
Posted by Jason at November 18, 2003 01:59 PM