Wider Angle: Washington State Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Gay Marriage

The Washington Supreme Court, in an amazingly blatant display of bigotry, upheld the state's law banning gay marriage. Their reasoning was as follows:

“Limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples,” Justice Barbara A. Madsen wrote in that opinion, “furthers procreation, essential to the survival of the human race, and furthers the well-being of children by encouraging families where children are reared in homes headed by the children’s biological parents.”

First of all, there are already over 6.5 billion motherfucking people on the planet! How many more do we need?! That aside, people will keep on getting on and having babies whether gay people get married or not. It wouldn't stop breeders from breeding, it would only create, and here's the second point, more healthy environments for kids that are adopted by loving gay families. Countless studies have proven that kids raised in either type of household with two parents do equally well.

Mathew D. Staver, a supporter of the ban, had this to say about the ruling:

We are pleased that this latest attempt by the homosexual agenda to radically redefine our culture has been stopped dead in its tracks.

Homosexual agenda? Is he from the past or just stupid? The plates on which American notions of right and wrong are based are constantly shifting, and the anger with which the 5-4 decision was carried out is a sign of a tension that could result in major groundshaking. Preventing any citizen from accessing a right that others have is just too recent a memory.

Justice Bobbe J. Bridge, also dissenting, equated the majority’s position with the endorsement of racial discrimination. The majority, Justice Bridge wrote, contended “that it is not our place to require equality for Washington’s gay and lesbian citizens.” Under that reasoning, she said, “there would have been no Brown v. Board of Education,” the 1954 United States Supreme Court school desegregation case.

So a big thank you goes out to Justices Bridge and Fairhurst who have been vocal in their opposition to the decision. The five judges who upheld the ban will soon realize how wrong they are, but too many families will suffer in the meantime.