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[desertvixen]

President-elect Obama is giving his speech.

I'm so proud and hopeful I'm almost crying.

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[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Obama Supreme Court appointees. Followed by judicial activism as required.

Be kinda nice to get it via legislation rather than judicial fiat, but we'll get there one way or another.

[napoleonofnerds.livejournal.com]

Obama says marriage should be between a man and a woman, just to get elected. The best we can hope for is the court overturning DOMA, but there's no hope they intervene in state constitutional affairs.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Overturning DOMA is a start. Possibly also a decision that marriages valid in the state originally performed must be accepted as valid in another state (using cousin-marriage as a precedent, perhaps).

And I'm looking toward a possible *legislative* legalization in NY in the next few years, given the change in their party-power structure in this election.

None of which helps CA in the short term, of course, or reduces my desire to b*tch-slap a goodly chunk of that state (not to mention the Mormon Church), but I've never thought this'd be quick or easy or without setbacks.