Three cheers for California.

[JackRiddler]

This doesn't quite make up for Nixon, Reagan and Schwarzennegger, but it's a good thing! How's it looking for the resolution vote in November?



Jan Felshin, left, and Edrie Ferdun, retired professors who live on Fire Island in New York, have been together 49 years. They plan a wedding in Los Angeles.

By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN
Published: June 14, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — The groom was shopping for the perfect diamond for his betrothed — the other groom. As Rey Almeida, a 47-year-old elementary school principal, perused the Equality Forever rings (a same-sex wedding special at 40 percent off if purchased from June 16 to June 26), he couldn’t help reflecting on the symbolism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/us/14weddings.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=california&st=nyt&oref=slogin

[JackRiddler]

1. Correction: I meant, the anti-marriage proposition on the ballot in November.

[Cleita]

2. Don't break out the champagne yet.

Here in California there is always a movement to overturn our votes whether it's replacing our legally elected governor with a Republican actor or now this initiative to overturn the gay marriage decision with an amendment to our Constitution banning it.