Posted by Bruised at 11:50pm May 15 '08After a proposition that only heterosexual marriages would be legal in California a few years back, I didn't think my own state would show any promise in leading the movement towards gay marriage.
Today California surprised me.
Its highest court legalized marriages between a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, at least as long as they are monogamous.
This means that what happened in Massachusetts was not a fluke. It's a step in the progress towards equality for people of all sexual orientations -- heterosexuals like [private] and [private], gays and lesbians like [private], bisexuals like [private] and me, asexuals like Psycho Disturbed and transsexual and transgender people like [private]. Massachusetts began it, today confirmed it. And as my generation shows more power in the political sphere, the integration of gays and lesbians will grow.
Sure, I'd like it best if marriage (a strictly cultural institution) were divorced from the state completely. But short of that, this is the best thing that can happen for the gay rights movement.
With Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger being governors, the spirit of Silicon Valley lagging, California not showing growth throughout the 1990's, and Seattle and Orlando showing the bellwetherdom of hipness, my pride in being a Californian has been sluggish in recent years. Today I feel proud to tell someone I'm a Californian again.
Today California surprised me.
Its highest court legalized marriages between a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, at least as long as they are monogamous.
This means that what happened in Massachusetts was not a fluke. It's a step in the progress towards equality for people of all sexual orientations -- heterosexuals like [private] and [private], gays and lesbians like [private], bisexuals like [private] and me, asexuals like Psycho Disturbed and transsexual and transgender people like [private]. Massachusetts began it, today confirmed it. And as my generation shows more power in the political sphere, the integration of gays and lesbians will grow.
Sure, I'd like it best if marriage (a strictly cultural institution) were divorced from the state completely. But short of that, this is the best thing that can happen for the gay rights movement.
With Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger being governors, the spirit of Silicon Valley lagging, California not showing growth throughout the 1990's, and Seattle and Orlando showing the bellwetherdom of hipness, my pride in being a Californian has been sluggish in recent years. Today I feel proud to tell someone I'm a Californian again.
California legalizes gay marriage - Bruised