And then they all come along, the eighty million good Germans, and each one has his decent Jew.

So who are you going to disenfranchise next, SCOCA? What equivocations, euphemisms and rationalizations will you use?

On a lighter note, I like Kinky Friedman’s (Texas satirist extraordinaire) take on supporting gay marriage.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

It’s a solution I’ve advocated for years. In europe, couples who want to marry have a two-step process. They go to the clerk’s office and register the union, and they go to church (or where ever) to get whoever else’s stamp of approval is necessary.

Then everyone’s equal. The State need not recognize unregistered relationships, and the Church need not sanction any relationship it finds distasteful. So, I wouldn’t expect to see the Roman Catholic Church conducting same-sex weddings any time soon. But that wouldn’t stop gay couples from registering their unions with the County Clerk.

Big deal. Put an initiative on the ballot to eliminate ‘marriage’ and make them all ‘civil unions’ that are recognized by the states. Get the government out of the marriage business and leave that to the biblicans and the churches. Why does it have to be any thing more than a civil union as far as the state is concerned? I think most people would vote for such an initiative and save a lot of time, money and energy. Informally people can call their unions what they want just like they always have.

The court was preserving a very important democratic process of lawmaking directly by the voters. Like every good thing, the initiative process can be misused and abused but there are still many good reasons that it should remain as a way for a direct voice especially at times when the elected officials are corrupt or bought off by special interests.

Civil unions for everyone! Ban all marriages for legal purposes. That will fix it. Just pass an initiative replacing ‘marriage’ by ‘civil unions’ in the California code. Poof!

As far as what they found, apparently (I have not been able to get the text of the decision yet)they found that Prop 8 was indeed a permissible amendment (as opposed to an impermissible revision) of the State’s Constitution. The fact that this creates contradictions in the Constitution is apparently neither here nor there for them.

Recalling judges for ruling is tough love. In this case, I’m advocating removing them for failure to rule. This ruling tries to split the difference in a situation where there are irreconcilable differences in the positions. Part of being a judge is recognizing those situations and picking the ruling you believe in greatest harmony with the law.

The fact is that California appellate judges (state level, not federal) have been running scared of the Right for 20 years. It’s time to teach them that they have to fear the Left, too.

DOMA says that no state has to recognize same-sex marriages that it didn’t license.

You are misunderstanding Barack Obama. He is not (and has never been) a liberal, much less a radical liberal. He is (and apparently has always been) a moderate. It says a lot about how far this country has been pushed towards authoritarianism that President Obama can be labeled a liberal and the label be believed by anyone aware of the record.

All of Obama’s acts to this point (and I think throughout his presidency this will be true) are the actions of a moderate.

I also believe that Obama is probably as liberal a candidate as we could have elected last year. That’s a real shame, but that’s the nature of the beast. Quitting is exactly the wrong thing to do. Obama will do what we force on him. On the Federal level, I think that we need to kill Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell and DOMA. In California, repealing Proposition 8 and arranging the recall of the six judicial cowards who refused to rule should be the next things on the progressive agenda.

Prop 8 was upheld because the CASC is afraid of being Birded (see Rose Bird) by the Right. The Left now has to show them that they are also worthy of fear, if not respect. Recall the spineless weasels!