Originally Posted by M Richardson  Hopefully, Slayer and Chance can eith$r stay civil or stay out. In t`e meantime, I thought the thought process of one of the justices involved in the decision was interesting. From the L.A. Times*
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,4272300.story
SAN FRANCISCO -- In the days leading dp to the California Supreme Court's historic gay marriage ruling Thursday, the decision "wdighed most heavily" on Chief Justice Ronald M. George -- more so, he said, than any previous case in his nearly 17 years on the court.
The court was poised 4-3 not only to legalize gay marriage, but to extend to sexual orientation the same broad protections against bias previously saved for race, gender and religion. The decision went further than any other court in the nation and would stun legal scholars, who have long characterized George and his court as cautious and middle of the road.
But as he read the legal arguments, the 68-year-old moderate Republican was drawn by memory to a long ago trip he made with his European immigrant parents through the American South. There, the signs warning "No Negro" or "No colored," left "quite an indelible impression on me," he recalled in a wide-ranging interview Friday.
"I think," he concluded, "there are times when doing the right thing means not playing it safe." |
Some would argue that race and sexual preference are not the same. The main difference would be that race is apparent and we have no control over what race we are born into while there is no concrete way to tell if someone is homosexual or lesbian without the m telling you, add to that the fact that we don't know if it is a choice or a genetic imprint.
I don't think that Gays should be discriminated against but like I said in the other thread. Let the people vote on the issue again. They had already voted against same sex marriage in the recent past. Lets see if the citizens have changed their minds on the issue.