[Diddle E. Squat]

No, it is not a victory for human rights, it is simply another judicial power grab to impose the will of a few unelected judges on the people via a legal loophole.

Read closely, they had the opportunity to chose a potentially equal designation of 'civil unions', that with some legislative moves would have provided basically the same economic benefits, while still recognizing that a union of a man-man or woman-woman is clearly different than man-woman, with different policy impacts. But no, even that wasn't good enough, they had to insist that it be given the same term, 'marriage'.

Fine, the gay rights lobby got greedy and overreached. They could have gotten 99% of what they wanted under a different name, but they wanted to smear it in everyone's face, acting like a spoiled little child who runs around the dinner table putting his fingers in everyone's plate. Well now they will find out the bitter negatives of overreaching out of greed and spite, and get far less than what they could have. 2/3rds of Americans oppose gay marriage, and the number opposed to forced gay marriage laws will only grow when the issue of having one state define their state's laws becomes a co-equal issue. The judicial activists have also miscalculated on what they can get away with.

In the culture war, the gay lobby and judicial activists have just decided to lead the French army into Russia, and winter is approaching...

[cajungirl]

post 109,,you are so right.

[Jim Noble]

They could have gotten 99% of what they wanted under a different name

But they don't want, or even care about the 99%.

[happygrl]

In the culture war, the gay lobby and judicial activists have just decided to lead the French army into Russia, and winter is approaching...

Bravo ! Well said.