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This is a great overview of gay marriage rights and how it has come to be that 12% of all Americans live in a state where gay marriage is legal or recognized.

Queer Developments

And there is Jesse Ventura as a trailblazer again.

On Tuesday, we will hear what the Supreme Court of the State of California has to say about Prop 8 and the some 18,000 marriages that were consumated before the prop took out our rights.

Here is what I expect. I expect that my marriage will not be nullified and I expect that, while they will state that Prop 8 was constitutionally able to pass, they will mandate the Legislature to remedy the inequality which they found in the first decision which Prop 8 was meant to nullify.

In other words, OK, you can have the election but you can't have the result because it violates another part of the constitution.

We will see.

On the other hand, I won't be terribly surprised if we end up unmarried and unable to get married again in the State. For now.

I have been through too much bullshit to expect it to change too quickly.

The thing is that the tide is against them. The weight is falling on the other side of the balance. The geezers are disappearing.

Look at the graph in the article.

The gist of the disagreement now isn’t partisan or theological as much as it is generational. Unlike their parents, younger Americans and those now transitioning into middle age have had openly gay friends and colleagues all their lives, and they understand homosexuality to be a form of biological happenstance rather than of emotional disturbance. They’re less inclined to restrict the personal decisions of gay Americans, even if they don’t necessarily want the whole thing explained to their children as part of some politically correct grade-school curriculum. In a sense, the gay rights movement of an earlier era was so successful in changing social attitudes that the movement itself can now seem obsolete, in the same way that younger Americans who have grown up with the premise of environmentalism in their daily lives consider Greenpeace to be a kind of hippie anachronism.

It is not insignificant to note that they delayed the announcement of their decision until Tuesday to miss the date of The Days of Rage which occurred 40 years ago upon the death of Harvey Milk.

They know that they labor under a dark cloud of history.

Labels: gay marriage, gay rights