Thursday may be a very good day to be a gay Californian.

So today a very important person heading a very important lgbtq organization, a person who has a lead role in the current gay marriage case argued before the California Supreme Court in March, spoke to my lgbt institutions and organizations class. This person, whom I am not naming because I do not want to have any repercussions, legal or otherwise, should what I'm about to say not actually come to fruition, said that Thursday is likely going to be the day that the California Supreme Court will hand down their ruling IN OUR FAVOR! This is especially important given the November ballot measure aimed and amending the California State Constitution to ban gay marriage. I realize that there is a large faction of the lgbtq community who are not in favor of gay marriage, mostly because it's a broken non-inclusive institution, but personal feelings aside, marriage is one of the major ways in which our society determines who's in and who's out. This signifies the utter importance of gaining the right to marry. Whether you want to get married or not, whether you'll take advantage of your right to do so or not, is completely up to you, but nonetheless, you should still have the right. We can make it analgous to voting. Voter turn out is very poor here, but that doesn't diminish the importantce of your right to vote. Our voting system is even poor, still, your right to do so should not be jeopardized because of that fact.

Suffice to say, Thursday (15 May 2008) could be a very good day indeed.

UPDATE: I just received an email stating that the California Supreme Court will indeed issue it's ruling tomorrow May 15th at 10 a.m. PST.