I think we’ve won the first step to nationwide marriage equality! I’m so happy. Today goes down in history. Opponents of equality couldn’t produce a single ground to oppose marriage equality, not a single valid witness, and even admittedly by them, absolutely no evidence.
MR. OLSON: “The Romeer case that says you
can’t take away rights and make them unconstitutional
impossible to recover except by amending your state
constitution. And the Lawrence case that says that the
sexual orientation of individuals and their private
conduct is a protected right. You cannot then in the
face of all those decisions by the United States Supreme
Court say to these individuals we are going to take away
the constitutional right to liberty privacy association
and sexual intimacy that we tell you that you have and
then we will now use that as a basis for not allowing
you the freedom to marry. That is not acceptable. It’s
not acceptable under our constitution. And
Mr. Blankenhorn is absolutely right the day that we end
that we will be more American.”