[L.N. Smithee]

No one in his/her right mind truly believed that San Francisco's landmark same-sex marriages would stand the test of the scowling California Supreme Court or the white-hot glare of the rabid homophobic war-drunk BushCo Right. It was almost no contest, a leather-clad dove versus an archaic, oily tank from the word go -- or, rather, from the words "I do."

He's a liar. Just like every other leftist in this city (mine), they were hoping for results like those in Massachusetts, where the Gay-stapo led the charge to illegally scuttle a proposition similar to Prop. 22 in California ("The Knight Initiative", which made one man-one woman the only marriage recognized in the state Family Code), which was followed shortly by the maniacal verdict that marriage of same-sex couples MUST be allowed under the commonwealth's Constitution.

Gavin Newsom wants you to believe that he really believed what he did was legal, when, in fact, he was really counting on the leftist activist judges in San Francisco and across California to ignore the will of the people and create new law from whole cloth, making his defiance and subsequent exoneration the foundation of an ambitious political career.

[Nonstatist]

in fact, he was really counting on the leftist activist judges in San Francisco and across California to ignore the will of the people and create new law from whole cloth

If it wasnt for the impending national election, they would have. Dont doubt it for a moment. If Kerry wins, gay marriage will be defacto law in several states, if not the whole country, IMO.