Today's the Day

In Connecticut at least: same-sex marriage begins happening:

Connecticut state Rep. Beth Bye and Tracey Wilson hope to become the first gay couple to marry legally in their town of West Hartford on Wednesday.

For Wilson, it's both a personal and professional milestone. She's the town's historian.

"She'd love to be the first one in town," joked Bye, who as a lawmaker helped to shepherd Connecticut's 2005 civil union law through the General Assembly.

Bye and Wilson had a church ceremony with more than 150 guests to celebrate their civil union that year. On Wednesday, they plan to show up at town hall in street clothes, with their kids and a friend who is a justice of the peace to make it official.

"I think for us, we really were married three years ago in our church," Bye said. "But it feels different that our state is saying, 'now you're married. You have the same rights as everyone else.'"

Get that last sentence: the same as everyone else. That's really what it's been all about, that that's what the Dobson Gang doesn't like. They don't think that everyone should be treated the same. They don't believe in the American system.

The Family Institute of Connecticut, a political action group that opposes gay marriage, condemned the court decision as undemocratic. Peter Wolfgang, the group's executive director, acknowledged banning gay marriage in Connecticut would be difficult but vowed not to give up.

Look at that -- the courts are "undemocratic." In close terms, of course they are. They were meant to be. The Founders were no dummies, and they had as little faith in the majority as they did in kings. That's why federal judges are appointed for life, and that's why they have the power and authority to review laws. The "Christian" right will fight to the death to take away people's rights. That's one reason we have the courts as we do: to stop that sort of thing.

When you stop to think about it, the right's assault on the courts over the past generation has one purpose: the undermine the American system of government. That's all it is. (Given that Connecticut voters defeated a measure to call a constitutional convention, is it any surprise there's nothing from that creep about "the will of the people"?)