All you folks (regardless of your sexual disorientation) who’ve gone and gotten yourselves hitched by a JP or someone else who performs a legitimate civil union just got hosed by one federal judge in Northern California. According to him, you’re not married. That’s right, civil unions are not marriages. (That is to say, they are not contractually equivalent.)
It will get appealed for good reason, and it has no affect anywhere else, but you know how the left likes to think of every little thing some elitist radical judge does as a sign of whatever it is they want that no one else wants. It’s the beginning of a transformation of the culture. Actually it’s not.
Thirty nine states ban gay "marriage," seven of those allow civil unions. Do the math. You need thirty eight for a constitutional amendment–not that I’d ever suggest that, but you have to point these things out some times. 78% of the sovereign states are currently against using the word marriage to define "Just any union" of carbon based life forms. It’s not your word. You can’t just take it.
Besides, if the state can’t legally provide a non-religious service for the purposes of defining a contract of union, how do they suppose to get around the left wing gag fest known lovingly as so-called separation of church and state? They figure they can just take over religious services by judicial fiat–as the notion strikes their progressive compulsive fancy? (Or by deception and political tyranny where appropriate?)
What’s next from the activist ruling class? State sanctioned baptisms and confirmations? Are judges going to begin performing the Bris? There’s a pretty picture. We’ll have to create a whole new class of taxpayer funded "public" servants for this purpose, otherwise you’d best make sure you book in advance; the Judge might be busy that day overruling the majority will of the voters. You know, that’s a lot of heavy lifting and their hands might be a bit shaky—talk about accidental gender reassignment. Oops?
Of course this might be something the gay lobby could back. Ten adult gay men at the civil circumcision of a small boy. Someone at NAMBLA call a California Judge, our civil rights are being violated.
