From page 79 of the California Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage:
Accordingly, we concluded that the right to marry, as embodied in article 1, sections 1 and 7 of the California Constitution, guarantees same-sex couples the same substantive constitutional rights as opposite-sex couples to choose one's life partner and enter with that person into a committed, officially recognized, and protected family relationship that enjoys all of the constitutionally based incidents of marriage.
Ah, to feel wholly recognized. And human. Kinda fucking cool.
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The best part of the whole decision is that they recognized sexual orientation as a suspect class, which means that they gave the anti-gay law the same kind of heightened scrutiny they would a law dealing with race. As far as I know, no high court has ever done that before. This is huge!
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