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My dear Frien Mike made this interesting point:

"Aside from Lance "coming out", what about the morons on the Washington State Supreme Court? They justified their decision to disallow gay marriage, since the purpose of this "act" is to procreate. I ask you this: What about the women who can't conceive? The men that are infertile or sterile? Or the couples that do not want children? Should the court nullify their marriages or will future couples have to go through a screening process? And what about those "procreators" that do have children but put them up for adoption? What does the court have to say about that? Whatever happened to seperation of church and state? If heaven is full of these types of "christians", then count me out."

My take on it is this: I was hoping they would wait until after the election to even make an announcement. Had they legalized gay marriage in WA it would have been like handing the WA senate and congress seats to conservatives in November. I think the present US political landscape is too divided and too right wing for gay marriage to be even be the table.

I do think that the wordng of the WA supreme court's ruling is very loose, though. Almost as if they put this out just to satisfy conservatives and at the same time set up more lawsuits ( do you have to procreate if you're married? does that make people who do not or can not procreate second class citizens, too? )

I think now is the wrong time to pursue legalizing gay marriage. It's creating more enemies than allies.

But I do believe it will happen: it's just a matter of time.