What rocks so much isn’t that we won the latest game or set in a larger tennis match with gay marriage but that this decision was so thoughtfully written, so solid and so inarguable that even the people hell-bent on banning gay marriage are starting to admit that this is the beginning of the end. The NOM cross-country Bus Tour is little more than a side show, not unlike the Fred Phelps “God Hates Fags” protests, throw just so they can play the victim and stay on the anti-gay payroll just a bit longer.
Make no mistake, Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown are only staying in the fight because it pays their mortgages. Even they know that this isn’t a tide turning that will one day turn back, but a wall coming down that’s never going back up. The fight isn’t over. But the road will be easier now that we know that we have some very powerful allies on our side.
Oh, and a very strong legal victory, too. Let’s not forget that. The fight isn’t over. But let’s party this weekend like it is.
- Jasun
from Michelle Goldberg
The California ruling overturning a ban on same-sex marriage will surely trigger a burst of homophobia. But it’s a turning point in the culture wars. Michelle Goldberg on why there’s no going back.
Most people who followed the Proposition 8 trial expected Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker to overturn California’s same-sex marriage ban. Still, the scope and breadth of the decision is thrilling. In clear, cogent prose, Walker systematically eviscerated every hackneyed canard and bad-faith assertion offered by religious conservatives to justify rank bigotry against gays and lesbians.
Read Bigotry Takes a Hit at The Daily Beast.