I too got the feeling Keith was weighing whether it was worth getting bleeped(I love him so much, but his brain is funny...he says "crap" all the time without compunction, which left me foolishly shocked the first time I heard it, but he didn't want to have a Namond moment(Named after the kid on the Wire who tells Bunny Colvin "With all due respect, sir, fuck you," in a moment of anger. KO, embrace your inner Namond. We got your back. (I also feel there is a personal story to that one he didn't share.)

I'm waiting for a conference call to start, and the hold music is so trippy, I'm not sure I'll be able to participate once the meeting finally starts!

So where is the part in the judge's ruling that says we have to destroy heterosexual marriages?

In the section marked "other fun things you can now do".

Duh.

Oh, I think they can handle that well enough. At least the ones I know. (/phony cynicism)

California is now treating sexual orientation as a "suspect classification", which means you better have a damn good reason for discriminating based upon it (which equates it to gender, race, etc.)

I believe that was already the case under the California constitution, and was thus the linchpin of the decision (which I have only seen summarized by other lawyers). As Fred noted, once the court decides a classification requires strict scrutiny, you can almost never win.

From the opinion:

...we conclude that strict scrutiny nonetheless is applicable here because (1) the statutes in question properly must be understood as classifying or discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, a characteristic that we conclude represents — like gender, race, and religion —a constitutionally suspect basis upon which to impose differential treatment, and (2) the differential treatment at issue impinges upon a same-sex couple’s fundamental interest in having their family relationship accorded the same respect and dignity enjoyed by an opposite-sex couple.

Is this the first time sexual orientation has been to Strict Scrutiny Land?

happy birthday Megan!

happy zmAnniversary JZ & David!

My afternoon sweet carb is a chocolate cupcake w/ toasted almond buttercream from Cake Love. I love this part of "training."

The first I know of, Wolfram. And I'll add that the Federal courts only subject gender to an intermediate level of scrutiny -- so CA seems to go further there, too.