The California Supreme Court (with a Republican majority) ruled that same-sex marriages are legal. That is such great news. I simply don’t understand how you can discriminate against people because of their sexuality – that’s as wrong as discrimination because of race or gender.

“The California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples,” Chief Justice Ronald George wrote in the majority opinion.

Allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry “will not deprive opposite-sex couples of any rights and will not alter the legal framework of the institution of marriage,” George said. – San Francisco Chronicle

Now let’s just hope that fear and prejudice will not overcome reason. Seriously, how anyone can see same-sex marriage as the biggest threat to “family values” when we live in a society where marriage and divorce seem to mean so little to so many is a complete mystery to me. I mean, when a same-sex couple in a soap opera kisses, there’s an outcry – but when people on that soap opera cheat and lie and kill, when women are portrayed in stereotypical and negative ways, that’s completely harmless? That just doesn’t make sense at all.

But yes, for a moment, I want to focus on the good stuff. This video brought happy tears to my eyes.