One and One-Half Class Citizen
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/01/18599808.php (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/01/18599808.php)
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine
6/1/09
The California Supreme Court decision on May 26 upholding the validity of Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage voters approved in last November's election, but also ruling that the estimated 18,000 same-sex marriages in California between June 15 and November 4, 2008 were still legal, left the same-sex couples who got married in time (including this author) in an anomalous position. We can't really call ourselves second-class citizens because our marriages are still in force, but we can't call ourselves first-class citizens either because other couples with love and mutual commitment equal to our own can no longer follow suit. In a sense, the voters and the courts have granted us "special rights" we neither wanted nor expected.