Friday, October 24, 2008

Californians: Thinking You're Pro Proposition 8? Think Again

Another point I'd like to make is that the hetero only people had better not test California.  They may have gotten their law of hate to stick in other states, but Cali will get it to the Supreme Court.  We have the passion and we have the lawyers that can do it.

You don't want this tested at SCOTUS.  Even though you think you have a conservative majority there who will do as they are told, you are wrong on same sex marriage.  It is   an atrociously politicized court under Roberts,  but there is something you don't know.   The Roberts court has a majority between those in the closet and liberals, according to those with gaydar who have outed many in public office accurately.

Take for example the Massachusetts case involving a teacher who read a story that includes the marriage of two princes.   I don't know the story.  I'm sure it doesn't have a description of how to perform in bed after a wedding so it would be as innocuous as all the fairy tales told to kids.

The school or district was sued and apparently the Circuit Court decided that the school could allow that.  The hetero only people sneer that the "courts" forced more of this on their children.

What they don't tell the people of California is that the case didn't stop at the Circuit level.  It was shopped to the SCOTUS.  At the US Supreme Court according to Jeffrey Toobin in "The Nine" a case only needs 4 supporters to get on the docket.  The hetero only people couldn't get four justices who wanted to overturn the Circuit Court decision on that I presume or at least to hear the arguments.

This is why I'm saying that, if you personally don't want same sex marriage to be the law of the land, you'd better not get this headed towards the Roberts court by pushing onerous discrimination on the families in California who have breathed fresher air for 5 months.   Don't put it back on the parents of children who no longer had to live in second class families.

It will be Roe v Wade all over again.  

(And this probably goes for Connecticut too.  I read that right wing groups were planning to keep themselves in expensive clothes by collecting money for a reinstatement of discrimination in the Constitution State as well.)

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