This gives me a little pride in being a lawyer today (moments before I head into a job interview for a government legal job). Though this may be undone by a referendum on a California constitutional amendment (and, no doubt, will fire up the anti-gay marriage folks throughout the country just before an election), I can't help but think it's an unalloyed good thing.

This past weekend, I was at a wedding in Maine between a woman who used to date women but married a man, which was packed with lesbian couples. The priest (I'm not sure of his denomination), at the urging of the bride, spent a significant amount of time talking about how we should be mindful of the double-standard that exists on marriage in the US, and there was much conversation about how much the inability to marry made the lesbian couples feel like second-class citizens. I hope they are feeling a bit better today.

I don't know what the general POV on gay marriage is on OTF (from other threads I know that there are some who don't see much point in the whole marriage thing at all), but at the risk of starting an argument, I thought this development was worth pointing out.