Ready for some good news? CA passes equality in marriage bill!

[Modem Butterfly]

Today I am proud to say that I am a native of California.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-gaymarriage7sep07,1,5420306.story?coll=la-news-politics-california

With no votes to spare, California's lawmakers became the first in the United States to act without a court order to sanction gay marriages. The measure was approved after three Democratic lawmakers who abstained on a similar proposal that failed in June changed their minds under intense lobbying by bill author Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and gay and civil rights activists.

No Republicans voted in favor of the bill. Forty-one of the Assembly's 47 Democrats voted yes; four Democrats voted "no," and two abstained.

The bill, which would change California's legal definition of marriage from "a civil contract between a man and a woman" to a "civil contract between two persons," now goes to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He has signaled that he will veto it.

Tuesday's vote came after 23 lawmakers addressed the chamber, many of them focusing on the historic element of their action, others relating intensely personal stories.

[democraticinsurgent]

1. Governator: Let the courts decide

So much for the repuke crocodile tears about "activist judges" changing laws. Now that a state legislature has done what the repukes dared them to do, the Governator says he thinks the courts are the proper venue to sort this out.

Perhaps this is because the California courts are now safely packed with RW morons?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Yeah, NOW they want the courts involved.

These assholes are so transparent.