Demagogue

A New York State court ruled Friday that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry.

State Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan said that the New York State Constitution guarantees basic freedoms to lesbian and gay people, and that those rights are violated when same-sex couples are not allowed to marry.

The ruling said the state Constitution requires same-sex couples to have equal access to marriage, and that the couples represented by Lambda Legal must be given marriage licenses.

This is great, historic, yadda, yadda. If the ruling stands then my extralegal wife and I might just go visit some friends in New York.

However, it's inevitable that it will be used to help the case for the Federal Marriage Amendment. That doesn't mean we should stop fighting for equality, it just means that we're going to have to be ready to fight twice as hard.