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Prop 8 Overturned.

For today, at least, we win. May it be so every day until the battle is over.

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[missysedai.livejournal.com]

You might appreciate the bit on page 61 of the decision, where Walker quotes Scalia's angry and sarcastic

dissent

in Lawrence v. Texas to support the premise that there is absolutely no logical nor legal reason to prohibit gay and lesbian folk from marrying.

Here, lemme show you:

c. Lawrence v Texas, 539 US 558, 604-05 (2003) (Scalia, J,
dissenting) (“If moral disapprobation of homosexual
conduct is ‘no legitimate state interest’ for purposes of
proscribing that conduct * * * what justification could
there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to
homosexual couples exercising ‘the liberty protected by
the Constitution’? Surely not the encouragement of
procreation, since the sterile and the elderly are
allowed to marry.”)

I love how Scalia's snarkiness rose up and bit him right in his bigoted, stupidstitious ass.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

I think this bit was sort of critical, because this case will be going to the Supreme Court. They've already confirmed there, that private morality is insufficient to base a law that denies rights in that case.