Dark Orpheus, I think it is the beginning of something. Every time a powerful, relatively slow moving institution makes a shift, it makes it possible for other shifts to occur. Unfortunately, it is also the beginning of a different kind of battle over this issue in California. But that’s not something to focus on today.

TJ, There were lots of rainbow flags being flown in the courthouse yesterday. And Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco who started the whole thing by telling the city clerks to start issuing marriage licenses to gay people, was one happy man, among many happy people.

Marie, Sylvia, Debs, and SW, A good day indeed. One thing I love about the opinion is the way it says that it’s wrong to keep a whole group of people from having access to a single word “marriage.” I’d suggest, if you have a minute, reading the opinion. It seemed pretty accessible to me, and worth looking at.

if gays and lesbians can marry and possibly achieve marital bliss, that means writers who are gay or lesbian who get married are that much less miserable, and won’t write as much or as well. it’s a fact!

then again, many a stifling marriage spouted great fiction — just ask madame bovary.

This is great news and I hope it’s just the beginning of more good news to come – in other states, in other countries.