California Supreme Court upholds civil rights, declares gay marriage legal!
San Francisco partied and celebrated as the California Supreme court bitch slapped the ‘family-values’ crowd:
“The constitutionally based right to marry properly must be understood to encompass the core set of basic substantive legal rights and attributes traditionally associated with marriage that are so integral to an individual’s liberty and personal autonomy that they may not be eliminated or abrogated by the Legislature or by the electorate through the statutory initiative process. These core substantive rights include, most fundamentally, the opportunity of an individual to establish — with the person with whom the individual has chosen to share his or her life — an officially recognized and protected family possessing mutual rights and responsibilities and entitled to the same respect and dignity accorded a union traditionally designated as marriage.”
“…Furthermore, in contrast to earlier times, our state now recognizes that an individual’s capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual’s sexual orientation, and, more generally, that an individual’s sexual orientation — like a person’s race or gender — does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights.”
Important stuff to say the least.
20 years from now, civilized people will look back on these times and say ‘What the Fuck?’…But more importantly, they will look at this the way civilized people look back on the struggle for equal rights for black people now - hiring practices, voting, restaurant seating, Rosa parks on the bus, etc. - even the ability to play professional sports.
And we as a people (or maybe just our children) will wonder how we could have been so fucked up…
Modern day genius The Rude Pundit summed up the ruling in so many less words:
“In other words, this is family values in the real world, not in some backwards ass context where, oodles of evidence to the contrary, only straight couples can somehow raise kids who don’t want to, say, shoot up schools or rape dogs or whatever shit taint-licking fundamentalists believe.
“…Or, in the real world, stop being such assholes. A cocksucker marrying another cocksucker ain’t gonna stop your wife from sucking your cock. And if your daughters want to suck cock, gay marriage won’t halt them and they can even marry the guy attached to the sucked cock. And if your sons want to suck cock, well, now, in California, they can even marry the guy attached to the sucked cock. Everyone wins.”
