Today,
some promising news from America, or in fact it would be more correct to say, from California.
A San Francisco judge ruled monday that the California ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. He said the law denies citizens the basic human right to choose whom they can marry and discriminates on the basis of gender. The ruling will be appealed to the state Court of Appeal in SF. Meanwhile, opponents are considering a plan to go to the ballot with a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

So good news: partly, because I mean whats the deal, what the big fuzz about same-sex marriage? I hope that some future-snapshots will read this: what was the fuzz on the issue?
But, living in an inescapable NOW, the court-ruling of course pinpoint the sharpened polarization of this here country – and the ruling could be said to be the wet dream of the religious right. It is definitely fueling their fire. So I´ll leave this posting breathing for a day before turning to the backstapping of a nation.