Newsom vs. CA Supreme Court

      Right now on CourtTV they are discussing Mayor Gavin Newsom's actions regarding the gay marriages performed in San Francisco. Of course the questions are not limited soley to his actions, but to the validity of the specific marriages performed and the issue itself. I can't watch anymore. I just can't seem to stomach the issue being debated so inhumanly. Which statute, what law, what authority... What about the people? It's just the nature of these things, I know, but I guess I'm just not in the mood for it.
      No doubt I will go back and watch it occasionally. It's like an addiction - I want to know what's going on and why. I just wish it weren't so intolerable to watch.

[update 5/25 3:20EDT] Lambda Legal sent this statement about the proceeding in the CA Supreme Court:

"The California Supreme Court today didn't hear from the most important voices on all of this -- the couples who are married or want to get married. The days of debating marriage for same-sex couples in the abstract are over, but you wouldn't know that from listening to today's argument. Earlier this year, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom put a face on this debate when he ordered officials to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. There are thousands of real, living and breathing couples who know first-hand how important the protections of marriage are, but the court has not yet heard from them. Before ruling on the validity of those couples' marriages, the court must hear from the families who are affected and whose lives they are discussing. Those families will be irreparably harmed if their marriages are invalidated, and will suffer an even greater harm to their dignity if that happens without them even being heard from."

-- Jon Davidson, Senior Counsel for Lambda Legal in its Western Regional Office in Los Angeles