As you may have heard, yesterday Judge Vaughn Walker found California’s Prop 8 to be unconstitutional. Here’s the entire ruling if you’re into those sorts of things. I’m not a lawyer, but it read to me like a beatdown, and some lawyer friends of mine agreed.
Start with some of the big guns commenting on this: Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic, Dahlia Lithwick at Slate, and Scott Horton at Harper’s.
Margaret Talbot at The New Yorker offers a very succinct summation of the ruling.
Talking Points Memo offers a list of the best worst reactions to the ruling.
If you’re interested in seeing what right-wing bloggers are saying about the ruling, check out the responses linked on Memeorandum.
The National Organization for Marriage apparently feels the right to vote on other peoples’ marriages is more sacred than the right to get married.
Jesse Taylor at Pandagon points out a key contradiction in NOM’s position on the government’s role in marriage.
And I’ve never done this here before, but if you’re interested in blowing up an online poll, here’s a good one for you to start with.
