[Desdemona]

And, a gay marriage challenge is certain to follow this results-oriented decision, probably in short order.

I think you're right, but I doubt it will be achieved. There's a difference between respecting privacy [cough] for deviance and sanctioning it in contract form (if you take the legal perspective).

[B Knotts]

I think you're right, but I doubt it will be achieved.

I'm not so sure...they laid the groundwork today for such a case. If the state has no "rational basis" for prohibiting homosexual sodomy, how can it possibly have a "rational basis" for prohibiting gay marriage?