Today the District of Columbia began issuing licenses for same-sex couples. The DC Council recently ruled overwhelmingly in favor of same-sex marriage and some of them spoke to the fact that it would be wrong and unfair to allow voters to determine minority rights. Congress even had the opportunity to intervene and they did not, which seems to suggest an overall support for marriage equality in our Federal government.
The arguments in the Federal Prop.8 Trial rested last month and we await a decision. Judge Walker, who is presiding over the Prop.8 Trial, has apparently come out as a gay man. The fundamentalists are of course claiming bias, which is ridiculous, but I hope he does have a bias because this whole majority-voting-on-minority-rights thing has gone on long enough. We need the high courts and/or Congress to start making these rulings in favor of same-sex marriage so it can be legalized nationwide and the argument can be put to rest, just as the issue of interracial marriage was put to rest in 1967 following the Loving case, despite over 70% of Americans being opposed to it.