Less Civilized than Canada, Spain, Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont, et al.

Well, yesterday the State Supreme Court of California voted 6-1 to enact bigotry uphold the proposition banning same-sex marriage while leaving the 18,000 existing same-sex marriages valid and ensuring those couples will have to carry official copies of their marriage certificate forever.

Pecunium has a good analysis.

Which was the point of the initiative. It wasn’t about the word, it was about the rights. It was, at its heart, an attempt to keep homosexuals from being afforded the same rights and status as straights. That’s a pretty serious change to the constitution which, according to the court, hasn’t been, “fundamentally repealed.” Ok, I got it. Minor repeals of minority rights are OK, just so long as they aren’t fundamentally repealed. Make a zoning ordinance which prohibits Baptists from having a church within half a mile of a school; not a problem, it’s a minor infringement of their rights, not a fundamental one.

Coincidentally (more or less) I was watching Milk (missed it in theaters, got the DVD).  Yes, there will have to be organization.

[ETA:  NY Times editorial.]

Actually, if the word "mawwidge marriage" is so sacred, perhaps it shouldn't be used by people who don't believe it indissoluble except by death.  Just saying.