Jobsanger would like to congratulate the newest married couples in California. I hope your marriages give you many years of happiness and comfort.
Yesterday, California held it's first legal gay marriages. The County Clerk in Yolo County performed 10 marriages of same-sex couples. Other marriages were held in San Francisco, Alameda and Sonoma counties.
Right-wingers may not like it, but these marriages are now a done-deal and there's not anything they can do about it. They have put an amendment on the ballot for November to outlaw gay marriages. But even if they win in November, there's nothing they can do to erase the marriages that have already taken place. That would require an ex-post facto law, and those are prohibited by the United States Constitution.
I imagine that thousands of gay marriages will probably be performed before November, and the only thing that can dissolve any of them is if the couple gets a divorce. Win or lose in November, gay marriage is now a fact of life in that state.
Too bad Obama still wants marriage to be between a man and a woman. Maybe he will see the light.
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