A reasonable compromise? Bullshit!

[Pacifist Patriot]

Toobin is an idiot.

How in the name of all that is logical can you claim that upholding Prop 8 while continuing to recognize 18,000 marriages certified prior to election day 2008 is a reasonable compromise? I am delighted the court did not grant a de facto mass divorce, but does it not strike anyone as utterly bizarre that 18,000 marriages are legal but for anyone else who desires the same rights it is illegal by virtue of timing?

A reasonable decision would be for the court to uphold the constitution rather than sit back and allow voters to decide the issue (based on religious propaganda to boot). If slavery became the will of the people should we reinstitute it? Give me a break!

[LostinVA]

1. Agreed -- their upholding the 18,000 marriages shows their ruling is bogus

Cowards. They refsue to even stand by their own State Constitution.

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. When they announced that, my jaw literally dropped.

It really does demonstrate they have no faith in the legitimacy of their own ruling.

[LostinVA]

5. Seriously

[tbyg52]

8. Gives new meaning to the term "unbelievable." nt

[bluedawg12]

2. Injustice!

[ejpoeta]

3. i agree. if we depended on voters to decide this stuff we would still have

slavery and women wouldn't be allowed to vote. this is ridiculous. keep fighting. i think that the more states that legalize equality in marriage, the harder it will be to stop equality for gay marriage. when people see that it isn't the end of the world or hurting anyone else.... uggh!

[livefreest]

6. exactly. it's been a while now that i've seen a shift on CNN to nonsensical dumb explanation

it seems there was a massive lobotomy en mass over there

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. I so very rarely turn on the television for news, but I wanted to see...

the decision announcement. I think I'd have been better off just waiting the few seconds for the posts here. The inanity out of Toobin was positively painful.

[Chulanowa]

9. What it's saying is pretty simple.

It's a statement that he thinks the 1800 should be annulled because the people in those marriages have no rights - recognizing their rights while denying the mass of others is thus in his mind a compromise.

[Zodiak]

10. I am just irritated that equality takes a back seat

Everything that is even remotely a progressive idea is forced to take a back seat while the pragmatists sacrifice every principle worth fighting for.

Civil rights used to be important. They don't mean shit any more.

If everyone does not enjoy equality, then none of us do. Well, none of us do now (I would argue that so far we never did).