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"The California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples," Chief Justice Ronald George wrote in the majority opinion.

Allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry "will not deprive opposite-sex couples of any rights and will not alter the legal framework of the institution of marriage," George said.

In addition, he said, the current state law, enacted in 1977 and reaffirmed by the voters in 2000, discriminates against same-sex couples on the basis of their sexual orientation - discrimination that the court, for the first time, put in the same legal category as racial or gender bias. (State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry by Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle)

The complete text of the decision is available here. It's 172 pages long but the writing is very clear, and I can't resist quoting one of the many lyrically logical passages here. ( Bulleted for legibility... )

Oh, California. I really hope this sticks.

so... tell me .... is Emily really gone for good now? PLEASE TELL ME she's gone for good!

I know a lot of my little space pirates snippets are short, pithy, and amusing, especially lately, but that's because they're the only bits I really can snippet. As the book progresses, snippeting any of the more serious stuff becomes waaaaaaay too spoilery.

So, another amusing moment from the life of Mercy. Trust me, she doesn't find it all that amusing, and anyway, there is all too little amusement in her life at the moment. Author's note: Christopher is a young teen who works for his older half-brother, Connor, who has invited Mercy to attend a super secret thing with him, as his guest.

( ~snippet~ )

Lalala.
I'm doing this thing where I check up on something London every day and it makes me giddy and happy and butterflies are nesting in my belly. It's my third time there but it's always so much fun and I mean, it's not like you can ever get enough of that lovely lovely city. I find things to do just by open my map book. I'm gonna try and hit a few museums this time, cause I never have. In fact, this is the first trip there where I'm like "hm I wonder what I'll do?", cause whether or not the con happens, I'll have a week and not just one or two days like last two times.

I also have a plan for saving; basically, I'm gonna lock the money up at my savings account, meaning I can only get it when I'm at work or passing a sister store = no impulsive shopping or any sort, be it clothes, beer or whatever. It's a bummer that I'll be fake!broke all summer, but I know it'll be worth it when I can go crazy in London later. La la la.

My boss suggested I didn't need to do any shopping while over there.
At least I think that's what she said, I don't speak that language of "no shopping". Pha!

Speaking of travels, I'm thinking of pushing in a little weekend to Iceland after England/before US. Maybe.
(I'm never gonna get over there on the other side of the pond, am I?)





Also, I'm rereading The Empire Trilogy. Well, book 1 & 3 cause I'm lacking book #2 but I've read it so many times, so that's OK. It's SO GOOD. I love that trilogy so so much. And I miss reading, in general, I think this is the first real novel I've read all year! No, I've read one other, but still. I need to go get a new library card. I even dissed the podcast for the book both to and from town today.

It's not a very podcast friendly week anyway; I'm horribly behind, I finished the monday podcast today, and only cause I had to go someplace for work and didn't bring the book. But that might be just as well.. ;) Milton have also tried rejecting the podcasts of late, he loads like 75% and then he's like.. "Wait.. this crap again? NO. Do not want!" and I have to try again and again. Maybe my mp3 player have better taste than I do?

[old zyban commercial]

Song of the day: Shut Up and Let Me Go - The Ting Tings
(also known as the song on the latest iPod commercial - I love this song)

OK, I'm off to (finally!) reply to comments...

BTW, season finale time! Speculations, anyone?

I went icon crazy again. Yay! I need to upload some new icons cuz the old ones are bugging me.

Anyone seen Leighton Meester and Penn Badgley on TRL? OMG, that preview scene from the Gossip Girl finale looks amazing. Leighton on Conan was also great. God, I love that girl to death.

I finally made an appointment with my hairdresser. I plan to get me hair cut like Sophia Bush has it right now, just a little bit longer. But I love her cut so much and I need short hair.

Got almost everything transferred from my old to my new computer. I love that I finally got this network thing going down, makes transferring stuff so much easier and faster.

OMG, season finales tonight, I actually set my alarm clock, so that I can start downloading early in the night and so the downloads finish earlier. I'm crazy, but I know I will run into spoilers if I don't just get to watch the actual eps.

I made these like young!hot!versions of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black on my Sims 2, and they're madly in love, so they adopted this little black girl, and she's really cute.

I found a cheat to make males pregnant, so I did what I thought was once, on Remus, but it turns out I did it twice, once on both of them. SO NOW THEY'RE BOTH PREGNANT LOL.

( Photographic evidence.. )

Double Mpreg: only possible in The Sims 2.

This is definitely my LOL of the day. They're gonna have their hands full with three babies, good thing I found a cheat to make their needs be fulfilled automatically. I can't keep up!

P.S. All Remus and Sirius want to do is bang each other. Seriously. And I think Mary Winchester and I want to watch.

LOL SIMS.