Crazier Things Have Happened

Jake Tapper quoting...somebody. Can you guess who?

[He] was asked at the National Press Club, "given recent events in Iowa and elsewhere, is some form of legalized gay marriage inevitable for the United States?"

"I think that freedom means freedom for everyone," [he said].

“I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don't support. I do believe that the historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a state-by-state basis. ... But I don't have any problem with that. People ought to get a shot at that."

That would be be Dick Cheney.

So lemme get this straight: lefties hate Bush and Cheney, but love Obama. Yet both Bush and Obama say that marriage is between a "man and a woman." And now here's Dick Cheney saying gay marriage is all right, as long as the states get to make the rules. At a stroke, this pleases the states-rights conservative crowd, but throws a hefty bone to liberals, a bone that even Obama himself won't toss.

Imagine. The Prop 8 crowd's heaviest hitting political ally turns out to be a man they absolutely despised for the past 8 years.

GLBT's for Cheney in 2012?

No. That would be crazy. Never happen. Never.

Wedding Bells In Frisco

California's Supreme Court recently struck down state laws and declared that homosexuals can now get married, and enjoy all of the legal rights (and obligations) that go with it.

Some are saying that the victory parade will be short lived, because there's a movement in California to have the state constitution amended to include a ban on same-sex marriage.

When I heard the wedding bells out of California today, I went back and looked at one of my old pieces from last year. I more or less still feel the same way.

One thing about the California deal that does bother me is that seven people have decided the fate of all Californians, and the voters didn't get to say squat. Courts seem more and more brash when it comes to writing law, and California's courts are certainly no stranger to the legislative quill and ink.