Update: Supreme Court legalizes same sex marriage! This is a big day for San Francisco and the state of California. More soon.

I'm still alternately crying, smiling, and thrusting my fist upwards in reaction to the news. No, plans for getting married aren't in my future. But how can one not cheer when the California Supreme Court says

"the constitutionally based right to marry properly must be understood to encompass the core set of basic substantive legal rights and attributes traditionally associated with marriage that are so integral to an individual's liberty and personal autonomy that they may not be eliminated or abrogated by the Legislature or by the electorate through the statutory initiative process."

Oddly enough, I respect the likes of Matt Bernstein Sycamore's feelings that marriage for gay and lesbian couples is a despised bit of assimilationism. That choice is Sycamore's to make. But in turn, Sycamore needs to respect the idea that the LGBT community should not have its options in life automatically circumscribed by government policies supporting the views of fundamentalist Bible-thumping assholes.

Yay! We're a suspect class.

But now that getting married is legal, I don't imagine it would be as much fun as when it was civil disobedience.

In 2004, we had to pass through this gaggle of fundie Christians. As we went into the domed building where Mark Sanchez was to marry us, I remarked to a fundie, "I'm adam, he's steve, we're getting married and there ain't nothing your gonna do about it."

Here's a pic of the gauntlet we got to run:

http://cybre.net/pub/100_0177.small.jpg

Afterwards, we went to the Yank Sing deem sum temple at 49 Stevenson where there was a fundaraiser for the late "humanitarian" warmonger and zionist apartheid hawk Tom Lantos where the chant was "drop deem sum, not bombs."

Another perfect day in San Francisco.

-marc