Ninth Circuit rules Prop 8 unconstitutional.

[Brittain33]

Having this ruling restricted to California could be considered a tactical defeat but is definitely a strategic win for us. I don't think it makes sense for this ruling to legalize SSM in, say, Idaho.

I don't want universal same-sex marriage legalization going to the Supreme Court. We'd probably lose. Where we can win is on federal recognition of legal state marriages and in protection from unpopularity contests like Prop 8 in state decisions.

We've come so far in 8 years that the outcome is no longer in doubt.

[Brittain33]

This is why it was fortunate that the Supreme Court of 1896 was completely neutral when the Plessy case came up. Of course minority judges would have been biased and ruled in favor of equal access. Only white judges could exhibit true independence from the issue and provide justice.

(see what I did there? I'm not making a comparison on the merits, but disagreeing with the idea that being a straight, white, male makes you the default and therefore the right person to rule on any issue affecting a minority. BS.)

[Brittain33]

Weren't we moving milhouse's contributions to their own thread?