California can stay.

[azurelunatic]

Dailykos advises us to read page 36.

Proposition 8 reasonably must be interpreted in a limited fashion as eliminating only the right of same-sex couples to equal access to the designation of marriage, and as not otherwise affecting the constitutional right of those couples to establish an officially recognized family relationship.

If that's not a "fuck you, h8ers" from California's Supreme Court...

It's more slyly dismissive than "here's one in the eye", and will be crushing to the people who want it to be legally called "marriage". But from a human rights standpoint, oh yes baby. Oh yes.

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[fairlight]

The thing about the word "marriage" is that it has been used, historically, to refer to all kids of relationships, from a man and his 250 favourite slaves to a man and a woman to Sandy and me.

It is also a concept that exists in every human society. I'm not okay with separate-but-equal, domestic partners, civil union, unless that's what everyone gets from the state and the churches are the ones who do or don't marry people.

[azurelunatic]

Human/civil rights first, discrimination second.

I'm liking the marriage-for-the-people movement better and better, if certain churches continue their whiny-assed behavior.