How dare radicals insert their civil rights provisions into the sacred Constitution — a federal judge has just declared that California's Proposition 8 is in violation of the 14th Amendment. Now it's probably going to the Supreme Court, and who knows what will happen in wacky Roberts-Scalia land, packed with Catholics.
I guess the only surefire strategy for the conservatives is to go back to whining about that awful 14th amendment. Meanwhile, California should plan on having a gay old time.
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