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[owlmoose]

Okay, I know I am way over my posting quota for today, but I couldn't let this one get by.

Remember how I said the other day that the CA Assembly was highly unlikely to pass the same-sex marriage bill that got through the state Senate?

I was wrong.

Comments

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

That's great news! :) If Arnie vetoes it, he's going to get one heck of a backlash (same as if he signs it, but it's easier to be hated for doing the right thing).

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's sort of damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. I hope he choses to be damned for the right reasons -- he claimed to support same-sex marriage back when he was elected -- but he's become too much of a political creature, so I'm not holding my breath.

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just, Wow.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That was pretty much my reaction...

No updates from the Governator yet. I guess we just have to see what he does.

J

[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

*enthusiastic, prolonged applause* You must be so proud of your state. G-d! what we couldn't give for a legislature like that! Let's hear it for California and Massachusetts! The decent people may someday rise again. This was a very sensibly written act. And damn the Gropinator if he vetoes it. What's he afraid of? That all the bosomy women will be snapped up by other bosomy women?

Re: J

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Hah!

Back during the recall (I was not proud of my state that day, what a circus that thing was), when he claimed that he wasn't going to seek re-election, he kept taking all these moderate and even far-left positions on social issues, and supporting same-sex marriage was one of them. But now that he's planning to run for re-election, he's backpedaling from all of it. Gee, I wonder why? Grr.

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

From the article: "Schwarzenegger's office has repeated that he believes the issue should be decided either by a vote of the people or a court decision."

Unless, of course, there are activist judges. In which case, the new Supremes will just beat them down.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I do not see how the Supreme Court can rule against the correct thing on this issue. I just don't. With the precident of interracial marriage, and the ruling striking down sodomy laws a couple of years ago? Not even the court that's currently taking shape can ignore all that. The only thing that can stop it is a US Constitutional amendment, I think, and even amendments don't have to be forever (see: Prohibition).

As for the Governator, he actually supports gay marriage, or claimed to at one point. So we'll see what he does. Maybe he'll decide that a legacy is more important than re-election.

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

Ha! You have no creativity. The court can ignore a lot of stuff for creative reasons if it wants.