Wow, California is smart

Finally some fucking sense. It's about time someone else joined my favorite home state of Massachusetts by getting a clue.

Today, California joined Massachusetts as the only other state in this great nation of ours to legalize gay marriage. Not civil unions or some other mildly placating bullshit - but actual, same rights as heterosexual, marriage.

The decision had words like "constitutional" and "equal rights" - apparently foreign terms to the 48 other states that have tried to (or successfully) taken some civil rights away from a group of people. The greatest part of this was that it overturned a voted ban on same-sex marriage.

Why is that the best part? BECAUSE PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO VOTE TO TAKE AWAY SOMEONE'S CONSTITUTION-GIVEN CIVIL RIGHT!

Why is it a civil right? Because it says so in the fucking Bill of Rights. You do remember the Bill of Rights, don't you? You know that part that says "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are crated equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights (note: that's a capital "R", btw), that among thees are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".

That's really all you need to see to understand that you can't take one right away from a group of people that another group has. There is no argument possible to refute this. Religious reason? Nope. See, there's another part of one of our founding documents that separates Church and State, sorry. Economic reason? Please, show me some evidence. Traditional reasons? You're surely joking.

Feel free to believe what you want to believe. You don't want to embark on a same-sex marriage yourself, then don't. But why get involved in the personal, PRIVATE lives of others when it has no effect on yours? This country was founded on the freedom to believe as you want to believe and act freely as you will as long as you're not infringing on the rights of others.

So let's all be happy and allow others to be as such.

That is all.

(UPDATE: Here is the full text of the ruling. It's a very well written and pretty easy-to-understand document that really gets to the heart of the issue. It talks about how 60 years ago, California overturned a ban on interracial marriage as being unconstitutional as well. That's an important precedent and is entirely relevant to this issue.)

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