Facts on the ground

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Got to love the old social conservatives getting a dose of their own medicine what with SF marrying same sex couples and Massachusetts judges declaring the issue one of civil rights and equal protection under the law.

Facts on the ground, baby. Facts on the ground.

It's going to be hilarious when the California Supreme Court rules the same as the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The people opposed to gay marriage are going to wish they had never brought the subject up at all.

By the way, I think it's extremely instructive to read the US Supreme Court's decision regarding Colorado's attempt at eliminating rights for homosexuals during the nineties. This decision is the fundamental reason I roll on the floor laughing when I hear about state level efforts to ensconce the ban on gay marriage in their state constitutions.

We must conclude that Amendment 2 classifies homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else. This Colorado cannot do. A State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws. Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause, and the judgment of the Supreme Court of Colorado is affirmed.

Unless BushCo and their troglodyte band of social conservatives can get a ban on gay marriage into the constitution itself, they will lose this issue.

Let me rephrase that: They will be bitch slapped on this issue.