Whew....again. This time it's real

Since I saw the decision of Lewis v. Harris to be out today at 3pm, I couldn't really set myself in peace for a minute. I surely want to win the case, but I'm also so much afraid of losing Senate, and a ruling in favor of gay marriage may just do the trick to turn out the conservative voters. Although the ruling doesn't explicitly require the legislature to legalize gay marriage, as Vermont did in 1999, it requires the state to offer all the benefits of civil marriage to same-sex couples, which is a positive ruling which won't make people enthusiastic about it. Don't take me wrong -- I'm for full marriage equality and against seperate-but-equal -- but this decision doesn't require the legislature to create something bizarre called civil union, nor does it say anywhere that a civil union statue is constitutional. I think it's good enough for such a decision handed out two weeks before the election.

You can read my full legal analysis here.