Video and Open Topic: California Gay Marriage Ruling

I'm curious to read what your thoughts are regarding the recent California Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage.  I'll follow up in a few days with a pigeon's response:

Comments

[antitool]

I really don't care by this point. There doesn't need to be a constitutional amendment defining marriage--it's outside of the federal government's purview. If the state of California wants to marry gay people, great. They can also process the inevitable gay divorces. There are much more important things going on.

Like I say, if the problem is in this hemisphere and/or speaks English, I'm not interested.

[MOGS]

This is a state's issue, much as how I view abortion personally.

At the same time, I both arbitrary court rulings and constitutional amendments of any kind are bad ways to deal with this...

I don't think a court has the right to arbitrarily redefine marriage, but I also don't think constitutional amendments (even at the state level) are an advisable way to deal with this.

I feel somewhat similar about abortion - I don't much mucking about with the Constitution at all - that's a battle that shouldn't be fought so much in the courtroom as it is in the moral compass of the people...abortion could be legal all day long, but if few people (if any) ever exercise the right because the vast majority think it's morally wrong, I can live with that...

[Brian]

The thing that disturbs me most about it is that the courts overturned the will of the people. How can 4 judges have that much power over the lives of millions who voted against the very measure they just overturned? Put the measure to the people or their ELECTED representatives and let them decide... Don't get your way by judicial FIAT.

[MOGS]

"Don't get your way by judicial FIAT."

Agreed. I think the gay community will find that this way of resolving their issues is going to cause further mistrust and resentment, more than anything else.

They're not doing themselves any favors here.