Read the CNN Story: California ban on same-sex marriage struck down

The California Supreme Court removed the ban on same-sex marriage in CA… this from a court where 6 of the 7 members are Republican.

I am pleased, of course, but I am also bracing myself for the backlash… which has already started:

“The California Supreme Court has engaged in the worst kind of judicial activism today, abandoning its role as an objective interpreter of the law and instead legislating from the bench,” said Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues for the group Concerned Women for America, in a written statement.

Okay, great! So we all agree that the job of the court is to objectively (as much as is possible, anyway) evaluate/interpret law against the standard of the Constitutions. So… what exactly is wrong here? How is this “legislating from the bench”? What I see is the courts doing their job: “Hmm.. this law discriminates against people based on sexual orientation. Isn’t that already illegal? It is? Well, that makes *this* illegal too.”

Interestingly, and something that renews my faith in politics, Governor Schwarzenegger issued a statement saying he would not support a Constitutional Amendment that would overturn the courts ruling. Good on you, Arnie. He has enough respect for the law to not go around changing the rules just because he doesn’t like the outcome of something. Bravo.

It still really shocks me that people so desperately want a Constitutional Amendment that ingrains discrimination into the fabric of America. Why? Should there have been one back when Blacks and Whites were not allowed to marry one another? Would that have been appropriate? Why is discrimination based on sexual orientation any more acceptable than racial discrimination? That’s what I’m hearing from people… or are these people who WOULD try to legislate racial discrimination if they could? I think they are. Bitches.