The idea that the rest of the country will follow California’s lead is naive in the extreme. Right-leaning and Far-Right states don’t give a damn about precedent set by liberal states, not even California. In fact, many of them point to California as an example of everything they DON’T want to do!

So for me, same-sex marriage in California would be good news. But it would be good news in the same category as legalization of same-sex marriage in Norway. Nice, but not likely to have much immediate impact for me in my state.

While some people are whining about their “second-class” status because their domestic partnerships are not real “marriage”, some of us haven’t even got domestic partnerships!

That must make us third class, or maybe fourth. Thing is, it increasingly feels like the big LGBT rights groups don’t really care about that. They’re more worried about people in states like New York or California than about those of us who have to poor taste to live in less progressive and high-status states.

Try living in the SOUTH! Lousiana and friends of the south are ALL bible thumbing haters. They say they “hate the sin” thats as long as it’s not their sin. Problem accross this country is there in NO “Seperation of Religion and State” PERIOD.

Just way til Bobby Jindal (Gov. of Louisiana) gets elected to President in 8 years, maybe people from other states will wish they paid attention to their fellow states (country LGBT family.)

LGBT people living in very progressive states like California have become completely oblivious to the fact that many of us in other states haven’t got a fraction of the civil rights that they do! Even their “second class” domestic partnerships are WAY better than anything we’ve got here. But the fact that we have such an abysmal lack of civil rights is seemingly of little interest to a national gay rights movement that increasingly cares only about helping people in already-liberal states, who already have impressive rights, get “married”.

The rest of us just have to learn to wait our turn, because anti-discrimination laws don’t have the same “feel good” impact as being able to get a marriage license.

Nevertheless, the laws need to be changed throughout this country.

Neil