I just watched a segment on Justice Scalia's response to the DOMA ruling. What a fucking lunatic he is. The fact he was appointed to the supreme court just proves that Reagan wasn't nearly as moderate as people seem to think.
And BC he stated very clearly 10 years ago yesterday that if this decision would be defeated then there would be no way to stop gay marriage from becoming law imminently. So you can say that there's a lot left and that DOMA means very little, but now that the federal government recognizes gay marriage it will be nearly impossible for all states not to follow very shortly. You cannot be married in certain states but not have your marriage not recognized in others, especially now that the federal government recognizes it! all it will take is for a gay couple to sue in those remaining states of bigots to sue for equality based on this finding, and they'll win. You know it.
here's what he wrote 10 years ago: “Countless judicial decisions and legislative enactments,” he wrote, “have relied on the ancient proposition that a governing majority's belief that certain sexual behavior is ‘immoral and unacceptable’ constitutes a rational basis for regulation.” A long string of state laws, he argued, are “sustainable only in light of” the court’s “validation of laws based on moral choices,” including bans on incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, public indecency and selling sex toys."
Woo hoo! here come the perverts!