it's a strange way of saying

[tears_of_nienna]

I'm sad about California upholding the gay marriage ban, but I'm not really surprised by it. It seems almost like it's happening in another world--it'll be ten years before Ohio even thinks about allowing gay marriage. We're actually going backwards in that sense. A couple of years ago, Cincinnati passed a law that basically said that gay couples

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[neumeindil]

A couple of years ago, Cincinnati passed a law that basically said that gay couples cannot have anything even approaching kinda sorta maybe anything that resembles marriage.

Uhm... please tell me I'm wrong if I am, but IIRC, they actually added an amendment to the OH State Constitution banning gay marriage around... 2004? I don't remember precisely b/c my last 3 years of college are kind of a blur, but I remember citing that as one of the many reasons I wanted to move the heck out of state. :( And now California fumbles AGAIN. At least Connecticut and New Hampshire see the real issue.

[tears_of_nienna]

Yeah, I know Ohio did that--so it'll be even more difficult to repeal it when the time comes. *sigh*

Cincinnati did something in 2005 or 2006, I think, to make sure that the rights of marriage couldn't be extended, even in a civil fashion, to unmarried couples. And, with the statewide gay-marriage ban, that leaves same-sex couples with pretty much nothing.

I'm torn, though. Because although Ohio sucks like a Hoover in so many ways, they also fund their libraries much better than other states. *headdesk*

[darth_angelus]

As long as both (or more for those people who prefer it that way) people involved want to get married, it shouldn't matter who they are.

[flying_colours]

The decision on prop 8 was very sad. We've still got so far to go, but I do think in general that we're going in the right direction. Hopefully this'll all seem so absurd a few years down the line!

[sir_ophiuchus]

*nods*

I was crushed to hear about Prop 8. Here in Ireland, the government's been promising it for years and are now trying to water it down to civil partnership, and then are delaying that over and over, until people are really just getting pissed off.

But your situation is so much worse! I was in California when teh Supreme Court ruling went through - everyone in San Francisco was so happy. It was shocking to see Prop 8 pass after that. :(

[sunnyskywalker]

It seems like a horrible legal precedent to say that a (small!) majority vote overrides any considerations of, I don't know, rights to equal protection or other silly constitutional provisions. But I am not a lawyer, so maybe it isn't that bad? (Other than the bigotry part, of course.)

One of the teachers where I work introduced me to his husband recently. I had a quiet inner squee at how normal it was. (They're awesome parents, too - they adopted three siblings with behavior problems no one else wanted, and stuck with them, and now the kids are doing great. WHY would anyone want to make things harder for this family?)