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May 16, 2008
Calif. ruling on gay marriage
The California Supreme Court rules that bans on gay marriage are unconstitutional.
In anticipation of likely questions I may get on this:
1. I don't know if the bears depicted are females, males, or one of each.
2. I'm straight, and happily married to a lovely woman.
3. My thinking behind this is basically, why should one person's private happiness (in this case, two peoples' happiness) be a reason for other people to be upset or hostile to the point of trying to prohibit their pursuit of happiness? There is no real negative impact on others' well-being, other than their not liking the situation. The rights of inheritance, hospital visits and other basic rights of marriage are not unreasonable to give to loving, committed couples even if they happen to be of the same gender.
Of course, this matter is probably not really over. There will likely be proposed constitutional amendments to ban gay marriages via ballot initiatives... and if those were to pass, future ballot initiatives to overturn those amendments.
Comments
Whatever two consenting ursine omnivores want to do in private is up to them.
Posted by: Steve Greenberg at May 16, 2008 1:29 PMActually, "bear" is the term adopted by gay males who have a fetish for beards and/or moustaches (I presume the etymology is a shortening of "beard"). Bears are relatively rare amongst gays. Although straight, and clean-shaven at the time, my interests (a particular type of computer hardware/operating system) once led me to meet up with three open bears and one closeted bear in the course of a year.
So, to the cognoscenti, your choice of creature was more appropriate than you thought.
Posted by: Brian de Ford at September 4, 2008 2:33 PM
You forgot one, Steve.
Posted by: Shaver One at May 16, 2008 10:22 AMBy showing two bears, someone might think you are advocating beastiality.
I presume you are not.
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