Looks Like It's Freedom Week!

first foie gras, now marriage - looks like this country (or at least these states) is getting its act together and becoming American!

The Los Angeles Times banners, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox lead, while everyone else fronts, the California Supreme Court ruling that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to get married. The 4-3 ruling that overturned California's ban on same-sex marriage cited a 60-year-old decision that struck down a ban on interracial marriage as precedent. The decision, which described marriage as a "basic civil right," means the nation's most-populous state is now the second in the country, after Massachusetts, to extend marriage rights to gay men and lesbians. But the LAT highlights that the California court went even further than Massachusetts because its decision "would invalidate virtually any law that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation." The WSJ says the decision is "the most important legal victory to date for proponents of same-sex marriage."

-Slate, 16-May-08