About the dissenting opinion
The Prop 8 ruling was 2-1. The justice who dissented is N.R. Smith and according this Wall Street Journal article his reasoning:
He wrote that he wasn’t convinced that there couldn’t have been a rational basis for citizens to enact the law, such as promoting responsible procreation and optimal parenting.
what.a.jag-off
I’m sorry- last time I checked all it takes for straight people to “procreate” is to have sex. There doesn’t have to be love, knowledge of the other person’s name and least of all any actual responsibility in order for a baby to made. There are plenty of television programs, reality and scripted, that document this fact. Nor do these circumstances create “optimal parenting.”
AND YET when we talk about gays & lesbians, who can’t just have a quickie and then create a baby without forethought but RATHER have to go about extremely deliberate steps to be able to become parents, this a-hole is suggesting that there might be a rational basis for bigots to enact a law keeping them being able to be married.
UGH.
