California lifts gay marriage ban

California's supreme court ruled yesterday that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to wed.

In a 4-3 decision that flies in the face of public opinion in the state, the court found said there was no legally justifiable reason why the state should withhold the institution of marriage because of a couple's sexual orientation, and that domestic partnerships were not a suitable substitute.

The court rejected arguments that marriage should be preserved for heterosexual couples on the basis of tradition. Citing a 1948 case overturning a ban on interracial marriage, Chief Justice Ron George wrote in his opinion that "history alone is not invariably an appropriate guide for determining the meaning and scope of this fundamental constitutional guarantee".

What does this have to do with freedoms (other than the obvious civil ones, of course)? Why am I posting this?

Go gay people, but I have a huge problem with this. Not that gays shouldn't or shouldn't wed, but that the government is dealing with something they shouldn't.

Biology doesn't give a flying fuck if you're attached to your pleasure-hole through civil partnership or a marriage. Marriage is marriage because it's blessed by God. Even if you're atheist, you usually get married in a church.

According to the founding document of the US government, there's this thinly-veiled idea that there is separation of church and state? Marriage laws are unconstitutional... but then we know just how often using the constitution as a basis for an argument works. *cough*patriotact

So, apparently church and state are actually not separate in the US as religious laws are incorporated into legislature. Just like in Syria. if you are fervently either pro-gay marriage or anti-gay marriage legislation, I don't ever want to hear you complaining about Sharia law

Should the gov't not be concerned only with demographics, rather than enforcing the legal code of a religious institution (marriage)? There is no practical difference between a marriage and a civil partnership: Should the gov't really give a damn whether it's a marriage or a civil partnership as long as you live together and share resources? What about Ben & Jerry who formed the famous... partnership to live together and make the world's best ice cream? if we give married couples and baby-makers tax breaks, why not them? In fact, for dependency tax-credits, I say give a tax break for the first kid, and then add taxes for each one after that. Who needs kids anyway? Too many damn people I say.