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I’m not much one to blog on news stories, but this deserves a PunkAss mention.

The California Supreme court overturned Proposition 22, the amendment to the California constitution that would ban marriage for lesbians and gays.

And that’s fucking awesome.

Tomorrow, let’s do talk about how this doesn’t do all we might hope. Tomorrow, we can talk about how marriage is a patriarchal institution that queers shouldn’t participate in. Tomorrow, we can talk about about the Terrible Consequences^(tm) this might have for the general election. Tomorrow, we can talk about all the work there is left to do.

Tomorrow.

Now, celebrate. Celebrate that all the major papers consider this a win, with nary a pearl-clutching-think-of-the-children dissenter in the house. Celebrate that the Chief Justice said that not merely is Prop 22 suspect, all laws discriminating based on sexual orientation are suspect, and likely illegal in California. Celebrate that the dissenting opinion wasn’t based on, “tradition,” wasn’t based on one of the many irrational defenses of bigotry we’ve come to expect, but was simply that the legislature or people should have done this work.

Tonight, celebrate.

Tomorrow, there is so much more to be done.