In striking down the ban, the court said, "In contrast to earlier times, our state now recognizes that an individual's capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual's sexual orientation, and, more generally, that an individual's sexual orientation -- like a person's race or gender -- does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights."
Every time some court or politician upholds the rights of gay and lesbian couples to marry, I am given hope. Even if this thing is appealed for years, even if the conservative head-up-their-ass activists get some bogus marriage law passed, I accept today's news as proof that we are moving toward a time when discrimination based on sexual orientation is a thing of the past.
That's the kind of world I want for my children.
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