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Apparently a decision made by the California Supreme Court<\/a> has brought the entire debate over Prop 8\u00a0back into the spotlight. I\u2019m not a legal scholar, lawyer, or law professor.\u00a0 As a general rule, my eyes glaze over when folk begin discussing the fine details of this or that legal issue.\u00a0 I know we like the courts to say what we want them to say, but I\u2019ll guess most people aren\u2019t able to understand it any better than I can.\u00a0 And many who do, such as legal \u2018contributors\u2019 on various news outlets, are perhaps a bit slanted in how they report this or that decision or case.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

So I don\u2019t know what all of this is about.\u00a0 Since folks opposed to legalizing gay marriage are throwing confetti and celebrating, I\u2019ll guess it\u2019s something that reaffirms the voter based ban on gay marriage in California.\u00a0 This take is further cemented by the assurances that gay marriage will nonetheless prevail against flagrant homophobic bigotry that I hear coming out of the pro-non-heterosexual normality crowd. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have to see.\u00a0 I doubt it will be too many years before gay marriage is the law of the land.\u00a0 You can\u2019t have one state letting couples (or any particular number) get married, and others not recognizing it.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure gay normality proponents are aware of this.\u00a0 And since the overall trajectory of America is to follow our post-Christian, secular, progressive, socialist friends over in Europe, I figure it\u2019s a matter of time.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s worth noting that a California Court did something that, from what I can tell, wasn\u2019t expected.\u00a0 So you never know.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"