California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban - Los Angeles Times

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Anne Heche's Ex-Husband Needs You To Give Her A Job [Defamer Employment]
Published 5/15/2008 by Seth at Defamer
... a pass on her next month's installment. Next, Heche's lawyers may actually take the unusual strategy of arguing the financial-insanity defense, pointing as evidence to the actress's utterly insane decision to invest in the Canadian real estate market while employed on an iffy-fated series at best, as the U.S. dollar swirled 'round the shitter. It's unlikely to sway the courts, but still, all hope is not lost: With the overturning by the California Supreme Court of the gay marriage ban just minutes ago, sexuality free-agent Heche can get reacquainted with her Sapphic side, and ...

California Love [Hell's Bells]
Published 5/15/2008 by Moe at Jezebel
How-GayWedding-main_Full.jpg The California Supreme court just overturned the state's ban on gay marriage for being discriminatory and unconstitutional. Okay, and like, Republican appointees outnumber Democrat appointees on the court 6 to 1. "Scholars have described the court under the leadership of Chief Justice Ronald M. George as cautious and moderately conservative." Um, just what we would expect from strict interpretors of the constitution! [ LA Times ]

We Do! [Gays]
Published 5/15/2008 by Seth at Defamer
... DING-DONG! DONG-DING! The rainbow-colored smoke has emerged from the chimney atop the California Supreme Court. The Court bells, each recently adorned with a giant portrait of Dave Beckham and Posh Spice, are sounding. For it's official! Same-sex couples in our glorious, seaside state have the right to be wed! We know you have questions, so we went directly to the Defamer special correspondent on Legal Fine Print Accompanying Totally Fabulous Rulings to answer all your burning questions: ...

FBLA Exclusive -- SF Attorney Reaction to State Supreme Court Decision
Published 5/15/2008 at mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA
From LAT: SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Supreme Court ruled today that same-sex couples should be permitted to marry, rejecting state marriage laws as discriminatory. Jim Weixel, San Francisco attorney who's name is on the friend-of-the-court brief filed with the court reacted to the news with FBLA seconds after the decision was announced and said,"Holy shit Dude - we won!" New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

I’m getting married
Published 5/15/2008 by John August at johnaugust.com
... This morning’s decision by the California Supreme Court means I no longer have to be an unwed father. And for a change, even our Governor is onboard: ...

Presidential Politics Noted
Published 6/5/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (weepingsam) at The Listening Ear
... , but did in in the teeth of nasty resistance, and with an annoying tendency to run to the middle... Now - the republicans have run the country into the ground, in ways pretty much anyone can see. And the trends of cultural history have fairly definitively gone against them, as they have been going for the last century of so... There is a chance here, the first in a while, probably, to do more than hold off the most appalling tendencies of the right - there is a chance to actually move the country forward. Do things every other rich country does - health care, decent train ...