Why i love my home state

They allow gay marriage.

Looks like i'l be moving back there eventually =P

A few things about the decision that i've run across. 60 years ago, the courts in CA were the first to strike down something called miscegenation laws, which outlawed interracial marriage. They've now taken similar steps with gay marriage.

This isn't" activist judges," as the Rove-right would call them. The CA legislature - which is, um, you know, democratically elected - has twice passed laws permitting gay marriage. Both times, the Governator vetoed them, citing the voter approved ban that the courts now overturned. He is supportive of gay rights, and has said that unless another such ban is passed (and the religious right is trying to put it on the ballot for November, attempting to put it in the CA state constitution) he will be happy to sign any such pro-gay marriage legislature in the future.

Somewhere out it the blogosphere, someone made a very good point. Sexual orientation is actually more inherent, immutable, and self-defining than gender, or perhaps even race. Its not a choice, its something that is.

Lastly, again from somewhere in the Internets, was a discussion about civil unions vs. marriage. I've always detested civil unions. It wreaks of "separate but equal." But lets be honest here, gay marriage isn't about religion, or marriage, or gay, or whatever. Its about love, and two people wanting to proclaim their love to each other and the world, and become "family." It is the declaration of the discovery of a soul mate, one of the most inscrutable and important moments in one's life.

And it should be available to all. And there is no way to deny it without implicitly saying that homosexual love is something less than heterosexual love.

I am so very happy to be from California.

~M