Friday, May 16, 2008

I now pronounce you gay and married

It’s a revolutionary decision. The California State Supreme Court has legalized gay marriage in this state. They’ve decided, finally, that banning same-sex marriages is just like banning interracial marriage. It’s discrimatory and deprives basic rights of human beings for no good reason. Well duh. How narrow, uneducated and brainwashed do you have to be to not see that correlation?

Of course the deep-pocketed and loud-mouthed religious right has mobilized and are already in the process of putting a measure on the ballot to strike down this ruling. Fucking bastards, can’t they mind their own fucking business? I guess their idiot parents made them stay home from school the day they taught about separation of church and state in history class. As liberal as California tends to be, it’s terrifying how many conservative religious nutbags there are. It stunned me when a ban on gay marriages was passed several years ago… it hadn’t even been legalized yet! Are there really that many narrow-minded individuals in this state? It’s a very real possibility that they’ll succeed, again.  I just hope that this time there will be more people enlightened enough, and who care enough about human rights, to vote against their petty measure to discriminate in November when it comes up. If they don’t, we may as well throw out the Constitution and use the Bible as law. Wouldn’t that be great. Bring back slavery and women get to be chattel again.

In the meantime, let’s celebrate! The California Supreme Court says gay marriage is legal! Even though I’ve never been a fan of weddings and all that baloney, I firmly believe that people should still be allowed to marry if they want to. Whether your plumbing is an inny or an outy shouldn’t matter. Read more about this court decision here:  http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/15/same.sex.marriage/ and while you’re reading, here’s one of my favorite party songs of all time as your soundtrack: Party to Damascus by Wyclef Jean and Missy Elliott - rock out!