Judge strikes down Prop. 8

[kurtz]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/04/california.same.sex.ruling/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

One step in the right direction.

Now we just have to wait through all the appeals until it reaches the Supreme Court.

[j4m35]

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with kagan pretty much confirmed, the supreme court ruling on this is going to be huge.

so happy

[googlemyass]

Awesome.

[travis]

This is rad, I dont see how they could rule any other way on this.

[goraiders]

This is rad, I dont see how they could rule any other way on this.

Yeah seriously, the more you watch people argue from the other side the more idiotic it seems.

edit: I love how papers are doing a little bit of subtleeditorializing in their reports about this.

From the SF Chronicle:

Outside the U.S. District Court, dozens of people - most supporters of same-sex marriage - gathered long before ruling was announced. They carried American flags, played Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up" and exchanged hugs.

A smaller group of supporters of Prop. 8 also stood outside the courthouse, carrying signs that read "Marriage = man and woman" and "Recriminalize sodomy."

the end of the article

[dynamitekid]

it's a step in the right direction and i'm glad it's happening but....I feel like this could make California even MORE crowded.

[goraiders]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/04/EDEO1EOV7G.DTL&tsp=1

its bad when knowing next to nothing about the law, etc i can rebuke almost every point.

As far as politics go, anti gay marriage people infuriate me more than anything else by a longshot

[kittenmittons]

If you don't like gay marriage, don't be in one...amirite y'all? No h8.

[Guest errolwest]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/04/EDEO1EOV7G.DTL&tsp=1

This is the worst. I actually felt sick after reading that. Fuck.

[adamlikesmusic]

Another step in the right direction. Not too surprising, though, as the case in support of prop 8 was pathetic at best.

And that sfgate article was beyond ridiculous.

Edit - Reading msnbc's article on it, I came across this gem.

Luke Otterstad, 24, of Sacramento, outside the courthouse with his fiance, Nadia Shayka, 22, wearing T-shirts that read "bride" and "groom": "I'm very upset. I feel like I don't live in America."

lol

[goraiders]

"Judge Walker has added insult to injury by suggesting that support for marriage is somehow irrational bigotry, akin to racial animus. "

PLEASE, this is totally not one of those things that people in 40 years will think it was crazy that it was ever illegal.

[flood]

it's a step in the right direction and i'm glad it's happening but....I feel like this could make California even MORE crowded.

Its been legal in CT for over a year and there wasn't a crazy population boom.

[lonesomexloveus]

As far as politics go, anti gay marriage people infuriate me more than anything else by a longshot

same.

i think it's because the only reasons that these people offer up for being against gay-marriage are religiously based, which should very obviously have absolutely nothing to do with the government or its laws. it frustrates me to no end arguing with people like this.

[exitenglish1208]

As far as politics go, anti gay marriage people infuriate me more than anything else by a longshot

same.

i think it's because the only reasons that these people offer up for being against gay-marriage are religiously based, which should very obviously have absolutely nothing to do with the government or its laws. it frustrates me to no end arguing with people like this.

Yeah that's exactly how I feel

[benc]

Gay