As California Goes ...

MANIFESTO

Kudos to (four members of) the California Supreme Court for what seems like a no-brainer vis-à-vis the 14th Amendment. Indeed, the Court's decision seems pretty much grounded in the "equal protection under the law" clause:

"The California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples."

Of course, what I like to do is see what the homophobes have to say when something like this occurs, and they have not disappointed in their vitriol. Focus on the Family's James Dobson, the king of the spit-spewing hysterics, for example, shrieks,

"[T]he justices have undermined and endangered the basic building block of society, which has been honored and preserved in every nation on earth through most of human history," [and blah, blah, blah.]

The news reports have been great: full of the joy that a liberated people evince. And, of course, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has been almost Moses-like in leading his people to a modern day Promised Land.