I'm going to diverge for a moment, because I couldn't decide if I wanted to make a whole post on this. Judge Vaughn Walker in California has overturned Proposition 8, which made gay marriage illegal in California. He said that the law didn't provide any real reason that marriage can only be between a man and a woman, which made the law unjust.
The news was on NPR (again) as I drove into work this morning, and they immediately followed it with discussion about how Judge Walker's overturn of the law would do nothing good for democrats in the upcoming elections. It took about ten seconds for me to go from warm and fuzzy to pissed. My predominate thought: Who gives a shit? Overturning this law isn't about helping the democrats come elections. It's about restoring justice to the legal system of a state.
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