Tomorrow is the day. The Supreme Court will finally rule on Prop 8 and Doma. Depending what the justices decide we will either face a historical moment in the civil rights movement, or we will go backward a few steps.
If the latter, not to worry, equal rights for gay men and lesbians will soon be achieved.
I will be going into KQED to work in the newsroom starting at 1 pm for the next eight hours. By then, we will all know what the Court ruled and my job will be to help document the reaction. Here in San Francisco, there will be a big reaction.
Either a big celebration or a big protest. There is no middle ground at times like this. You either believe that everyone deserves the right to marry the person they love or you actually don't believe in true love.
As for the other important rulings this week, on affirmative action, the Court punted in a way that may prove useful, and utterly failed on voting rights. Pathetic, in fact, not recognizing that today's racism is much more subtle, but just as destructive, as that employed when I was a boy.
Tomorrow is a new day. Let's hope the Court does what is right.
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