Washington Wedding Bells

Foes of gay marriage in Washington DC asked Chief Justice John Roberts to prevent the city's law from taking effect. The complaint is the voters didn't get a chance to decide and their anti-gay views weren't sufficiently aired. Roberts declined to intervene (gosh! he did something right!) saying:

* Local courts rejected the anti-gay arguments (they said votes on human rights issues are not permitted).

* Congress could have stepped in to overturn the new law and didn't.

That means DC has started issuing marriage licenses to gays and the happy couples can start getting married there next week.

Related efforts: Bill Moyers interviews the lawyers in the marriage case in Calif. It includes a good debunking of the tyranny of the majority. If the public has the right to vote on anything and everything and majority rules there is no need for a constitution.

Here is the final plaintiff (pro-gay) filing in the Calif. gay marriage case, summarizing all of their testimony. It's close to 300 pages. I haven't read it.