Irony

I find it really ironic that at the national level, we have a Republican President who is very ready and willing to call any judge who would approve a ruling for gay couples to be married, an “activist judge”.

Now, we have just the opposite in California. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t want to take the heat so he’s doing exactly the opposite that the President of the United States is doing. He’s putting the decision back on the judicial system, saying that it is they who should decide what is right and wrong, and not the Legislature.

Do the Republicans believe in anything that is politically inconvenient to them? I am extremely disappointed in Schwarzenegger. I honestly believed that he was made of more than this. I know he’s Republican, but I also know that he has had a great deal of exposure to gay people through his profession. I would have thought that he knew our struggle for equality and would have understood that.

Apparently, he’s nothing more than a cheap opportunistic bastard. But then again, maybe that’s the actor in him? Not that he was ever that good an actor.

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California Legislature OKs Gay Marriage

Less than 24 hours after a landmark same-sex marriage proposal won final legislative approval, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday announced that he would reject the measure and that the contentious issue should be settled by a vote of the people or the courts.

In a two-paragraph statement, Schwarzenegger’s press secretary said he respects the legal protections already afforded gays in California as well as overwhelming support by voters in 2000 for Proposition 22 -- now under challenge in California courts -- which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

“The governor believes the matter should be determined not by legislative action -- which would be unconstitutional -- but by court decision or another vote of the people of our state,” said Margita Thompson. “We cannot have a system where the people vote and the Legislature derails that vote.” (source)