Part of the Cal court decision rested on their observing that the state had institutionalized domestic partnership to such an extent that it was de facto marriage, a parallel track of the same thing lacking merely the same name. They saw no reason not to give it the same name.

Once all these states made such arrangements de facto, it was only a matter of time before they would become de jure.

All us homophobes who originally opposed domestic partnership laws as the camel’s nose in the tent were scorned as small minded bigots who wouldn’t let people visit their dying partners in the hospitals.

The fight against society disordering itself morally has had little to no support from the Right punditocracy. Thanks, Republicans for never thinking to fight until it’s too late.

No one on the Beltway Right seems willing to notice that the slippery slope regarding moral issues never fails to come true. No, birth control wouldn’t lead to unwed mothers, which wouldn’t lead to abortion, which wouldn’t lead to infanticide, which wouldn’t lead to devaluing children, which wouldn’t lead to sexualizing the young, which wouldn’t lead to hooking up, and approving of homosexual practices, which wouldn’t lead to making criticism of homosexuality illegal and so on.

Talk to the God of the Old Testament about slippery slopes. I’m so sick to death of all these urbane conservatives who never find any new perversion of the moral order disturbing and think those that do are the same as the preachers who want to ban dancing in their towns. (Seen any “freak dancing” lately?)

Sheesh.