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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2009-05-27 09:53 am
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California can stay.

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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[personal profile] fairlight 2009-05-28 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] betweenthebliss.livejournal.com 2009-05-27 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, it's hard for me to decide how i feel about this.... like, yeah, this is really interesting (and thank you SO much for posting about it) and i'm really relieved on many levels to know that it wasn't just a blanket "no". but on the other hand i can't help thinking of how many people who might've been planning their weddings for this fall, or next spring, and just knowing that thanks to this ruling there are so many people who will not validate that marriage, who will not even see them as a legal family equal in all respects to a hetero married couple, because they can't use the word 'marriage'. it's just sad. and i know that at the moment we can't be picky about words, and this is actually a truly unique and interesting thing the court has done, definitely something to be grateful for... but it's just hard to stomach. :(

in any case, thanks again for posting the article. and here's hoping next time there's an opportunity like this, the court in question punches the conservatives in the face. XD
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