Hurrah!

[kproche]

The California State Supreme Court has voted not to stay their same-sex marriage decision until the November election.

That means marriage licenses can be issued beginning June 17!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/04/BA8V1137HS.DTL&tsp=1

Unfortunately, I've also discovered that they don't quite know what to do about registered domestic partners who decide to marry each other.

ETAThanks to jkusters who pointed me to this FAQ:

http://www.equalityforall.com/courtcasefaqs#anchor13

Now, we had a big ol' ceremony with our families in 2005, so we're just planning a quickie civil ceremony (maybe right before a BASFA meeting) to license things as a marriage.

Comments

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

You'll probably have to pay for the upgrade. :)

[jadeprince.livejournal.com]

Oh thank goodness. I've been waiting to hear an update on this.

[lilacwire.livejournal.com]

I love seeing news like this. <3

[trinsf.livejournal.com]

I was so excited to read it when I saw it this morning! It's going to be another Summer of Love!

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

I sincerely hope it is. As many people as possible proving their "boring / bland / conventional normalness" by doing such a "boring / bland / conventional normal thing" as GETTING MARRIED.

Marriage - what a galling "in your face" to the frothing bigots who try to portray people who fall outside their narrow-minded definition of "normal" (read: Exactly Like THEM) as "fringe freaks" and "dangerous elements determined to destroy all that is "Truth, Justice and the American Way."

Whereas "ordinary average folk" can see: Gee, just other people being.... boringly normal! Wow, who'da thunk it? :p~~~~~~~~~~~

Hey. The bigots used to pull the same shit over interracial marriage. Did people like me tear down the very fabric of society!!!"? - Obviously NOT.

[theresamather.livejournal.com]

Hooray!!! :) :)

[cmdrsuzdal.livejournal.com]

You'd figure there would be some precedent from heterosexual domestic partnerships that got married, no?

[buddykat.livejournal.com]

You would think so... but then, that means that the government would be doing something logical and intelligent!

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

So, where you getting hitched?

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

BASFA meeting, 23rd! :)

[cherylmmorgan.livejournal.com]

I have this awful feeling that all my friends will be getting married while I'm stuck in the UK, but my thoughts will be with you all anyway.

[lferion]

*Dances*

I'm sure that someone will figure the domestic partner -> Marriage thing out pdq :-)

*I* know you are married already, but I am soooooo happy that you will get to be married-according-to-the-state-of-California too *\o/*

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

HUZZAH!!!! :D :D :D

Hey, you're already married, but the "piece o' paper" should be eminently useful. :D

[djmermaid.livejournal.com]

congratulations, you two! I can hardly wait to see what you decide to wear. ;-)

[jkusters]

Apparently, Marriage and RDP are considered separate categories, so you can be both. This is according to the ACLU guys who issued a FAQ a few days after the ruling.

http://www.equalityforall.com/courtcasefaqs#anchor13

JOhn.

[kproche.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll edit the entry to point to the FAQ

[kaysho.livejournal.com]

This still leaves unanswered the important question of etiquette of who proposes to whom. :)

[kproche.livejournal.com]

Oh that was settled once and for all in 2004.

I'd been asking at least once a year since 99. He always answered "maybe" or "sometime".

At Westercon in Phoenix, at the end of a wine-tasting party with friends I asked him (again) on bended knee and he said (no surprise) "Sometime..."

So I dropped to both knees and said, "No more 'sometime' -- Yes or No?!"

He said, "Yes!" The room went mad, and we had our big shindig in 2005.

So when the news came out I asked him if he wanted to have a civil service quickly and he said he thought that was a good idea, too.

(Yay)