Commentary By Ron Beasley
Today a "liberal" judge appointed by Ronald Reagan who's nomination was opposed by gay activists declared that California's proposition 8 was unconstitutional.
A federal judge in San Francisco decided today that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, striking down Proposition 8, the voter approved ballot measure that banned same-sex unions.
U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker said Proposition 8, passed by voters in November 2008, violated the federal constitutional rights of gays and lesbians to marry the partners of their choice. His ruling is expected to be appealed to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and then up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Over at The Moderate Voice Logan Penza asks:
That language seems to concede that gender once did form �an essential part of marriage�. If so, what changed?
Our civilization has been based on the mores of a Middle Eastern tribal society for 2,000 years. What may have been good for the Tribe of Israel over 2,000 years ago does not apply today. We have slowly been abandoning these tribal mores. First it was slavery and more recently the realization that women were equal partners not property. Of course we are tribal creatures and tribal mores die hard. Change isn't easy but it happens anyway. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say the definition of the tribe changes.
I was glad to see Prop 8 struck down. Would've really preferred if it was the non-idiot voters in Cali dominating the ballot box. Alas, I suppose it's an introduction into basic constitutional checks-and-balances for the sex supremacists <--anti-marriage equality activists
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