Ban On Same-Sex Marriage Ruled Unconstitutional

(San Francisco, California) Boy, it seems that hardly a day goes by without somebody stirring the political pot in California. That's what happened yesterday when Judge Richard Kramer of the Superior Court of San Francisco ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage is contrary to the "basic human right to marry a person of one's choice."

Naturally, the ruling was celebrated by the gay crowd and criticized by conservatives. Logically, Kramer's decision is just the first volley in a lengthy legal battle and no reason to get too excited about right now. And, relying upon the opinion of one legal scholar, the California Supreme Court is "likely to hold that the opposite-sex-only requirement is indeed constitutional."