Prop 8 & judges ruling

Well, it's over! (again)! Or is it just another step in a long, halting, jerky road to equality? The California Supreme Court ruled that our recent election and passage of Proposition 8 is valid and (for the time being) it is illegal for same sex marriages to be officially registered in California. I join dissenting Justice Carlos Morena and the ACLU in expressing concern that we may have turned around and stopped protecting rights for those who need such protection.

Equality of California is already working on their strategy and war chest for a big fight in 2010. My guess is that the leaders of the Mormon Church are likewise evaluating what they did right in getting the proposition passed. One would guess that they are probably also evaluating the public relations issues that were raised and the problem all churches have when becoming political - alienating some of its members.

I believe that we are close to the "tipping point" politically when many more states will suddenly through their supreme courts or through their legislatures pass Same Sex Marriage Guarantees. But religiously we are not yet at the tipping point so most states will just as rapidly "revert ". The trend seems to be eventual approval of Same Sex Marriage unless there is a religious revival, which is not out of the question.'' I think it is more likely that people in states with SSM will discover that nothing much changed after all. Like equal rights for women and equal rights for blacks, equal marriage rights will lift as all up rather than lift some of us up at the expense of the others.