The marriages continue in San Francisco, and the country is still chugging along just fine. Somehow, all those straight couples manage to stay married despite the gay couples being married. And I doubt that they feel that their marriages are threatened by it.
Meanwhile, a judge (no doubt he’ll shortly be labeled “activist”) ruled that the marriages could keep happening:
Judge Ronald Quidachay refused on Friday to issue a temporary restraining order on same-sex marriages until the issue was resolved in future judicial proceedings. The judge said the conservative group had offered no evidence that irreparable harm would be caused by the marriages.
It’s been a long, cold winter under the Bush administration, and I am hoping that this continuing happy event in San Francisco will be followed by more of the same in Massachusetts and in other places where some mayors are beginning to express their support for equality. And then let’s hope it’s followed by the end of the fundamentalist, ultra-right, ideologically motivated Bush administration.
