Oh California!

Okay, so finally California, or the justice system has come to their senses about marriage. All religious and whatever other arguments aside, it should not be a matter of what is considered "correct" or "normal" or "standard." (I mean who are we to say what's normal and what's not??) It's a matter of a persons' right to chose how they want to live their lives, and who they want to marry otherwise we would be back to arranged marriages. I know I will probably get a lot of flack about saying this, but this is the honest truth I feel regarding this matter. It may offend some people because of their religious affiliations or they way the were raised, or their perceived family dynamic. But hey, it offends me when people don't squeeze their toothpaste from the bottom of the tube. Okay maybe not to that extent, but it bugs me nonetheless. We are a country based on the idea of freedom and liberty that extends to our life, liberty, and property per the Fourteenth Amendment. We allow people so many freedoms that have some often lead to riots or racial slurs or extremist ideals. But they are allowed and protected under our Constitution. So how is it not a liberty to allow someone to chose who they want to have a relationship with? To honour, cherish, and love? To spend the rest of their lives with? How does that just suddenly get tossed out the window? Anyway, it's time to move away from that narrow point of view, from allowing emotions hinder logic, from stupidity and ignorance from barring equal rights. So cheers to the recent California Court decision. I say it's about time.

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.