Rational Basis

I just got done listening to a long interview Dan Savage did with the Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court. The court recently upheld the state legislature's law banning same-sex marriage as "rational".

Savage's point was that every piece of evidence presented to the court indicated that same-sex partners make just as good of parents as heterosexual parents. Therefore, there was no rational basis to uphold the state law.

It was painful to listen to. Savage literally savaged the old man, to the point that the justice was muttering incoherently at the end, asking to be left alone. Savage beat him over the head with all the evidence and studies from the scientific community that was presented to the court during the proceedings.. and he did it while a gay couple raising the child were in the room so the Justice could see them, and a picture of his own child right in front of the judge.

We need more of this. The people making the decisions have no personal stake in it, so it's easy for them to side with the bigots and immoral idiots. The decisions that get made have real life implications beyond just simple social justice. There are literally over 1100 laws supporting married couples that same-sex couples do not have, and their children bear the brunt of that.

But then, the Christians think the children should simply be taken out of those families.

It's just a matter of time before same-sex marriage is legal and accepted as a normal thing in this country. Those opposed to it will simply be seen by history as irrational haters, exactly the same as the racists opposed to the civil rights movement. They'll be completely irrelevant as Mel Gibson muttering drunkenly, or the old man writing rulings over other people's lives, when his is going to end soon anyway.

Nice legacy for him, isn't it? The only thing you have after you're dead is what you did when you were alive.. and his will be that of injustice, when I'm sure everything else he did was quite nobel. It's sad.