Prop 8 : California Gay Marriage Ban overturned by Judge Walker

Judge Walker 

So how cool is this news on this blogger's 48th birthday: Proposition 8, the horrible and neurotic (Who cares who marries whom?) law prohibiting Gay marriage was overturned today, Wednesday, August 4th, 2010.

In other words, by "Memorandum Order of Judge Vaughn Walker Declaring California's Proposition 8 Unconstitutional."

The primary reason stated by Chief U.S District Court Judge For Northern District of California, Vaughn Walker is on page 135 of the case ruling document and reads:

Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and lesbians. The evidence shows conclusively that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples.

What's massively cool is that Judge Walker is himself Gay. Opponents will certainly look at that fact as an issue in his ruling, but I think it's fitting that someone who's life would be altered by Prop 8 has the chance to rule on its constitutionality.

Before you react one way or the other, take time to read the case document, which you can download here: CASE DOC.

And so ends, for the moment, the reason that just protests like this one in the video from last year, occurred, but will the anger from those who feel it necessary to block the civil rights of others, also expressed in videos below, subside? I hope so.





Stay tuned for more on this amazing development.