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Smurfs, polygamists and super delegates
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Bay to Breakers, the only place you can find all of the above in a purported foot race/parade across a city. A couple of years ago, Jen and I ran this together in preparation for our various sporting endeavors. This year, Khoan–who is training for the SF Marathon, and I–not training for much, rambled along with 60,000 others. We strolled to the start line amidst the hoardes of keg haulers and tortilla tossers. The hands down best costumer prize goes to the 4 women and one “Big Daddy” dressed as the Texas polygamists. Don’t know where they found the dresses, but the women had those prairie dresses and sprayed their bangs to form the requisite 6 inch wall. Instead of race registration numbers, they wore tags reading “Wife #1″ #2 et al. The only thing amiss were the 7-11 big gulp size bloody mary’s they were sipping along the route.I know it’s technically a 7mi/11km “race”, but hellow…roving tiki bars. So it’s really an annual stroll across San Francisco. After a much appreciated pit stop at Chris and Ed’s, we continued up the Hayes hill and into Golden Gate park where the costumes thin out and spandex density rises. We actually sped through the park –mostly to try to get past the naked (other than a flourescent green thong) dude. Adhering to B2B tradition, we ate loads of “recovery” dim sum.
The all-time BEST part of B2B? Volunteers handing out salon-pas at the finish line.
The run felt good and I smell summer around the corner…do I want to register for the Folsom triathlon…comments/votes welcome!
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More than marriage
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The right to marry is pretty cool, but as I skimmed the 126 page decision (Judges aren’t known to get to the point quickly) I came across a sentence that made me pause, re-read twice and then have a moment of severe self-doubt about my rusty constitutional law skills…was this for real?There is no persuasive basis for applying to statutes that classify persons on the basis of the suspect classification of sexual orientation a standard less rigorous than that applied to statutes that classify on the basis of the suspect classifications of gender, race, or religion.
With this decision, California become the first state to subject a statutes that discriminates based on sexual orientation to strict scrutiny, the same level of review applied to racially discriminatory statutes. So what? Well, In the words of my favorite law pundit, Kenji Yoshino:
For gays, this pronouncement is critical because it is portable—that is, gays can now challenge any California state policy that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation.
(thanks Chris P for the article!)
That’s right, ANY California state policy.
Marriage? Stay tuned…
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NPR, City Hall and the various lgbt lists remind us that today the California Supreme Court will decide whether to allow same-sex matrimonial bliss. This would mean hoards of monogamy loving same-sex couples descending upon the Holy Land (Castro and Market) around 5:30 tonight. I assume the party –if it’s a good ruling, or “rally!” if it’s a bad decision, will go on until at least 7.If it’s a good decision, I will most likely save my “witnessing history moment” to shooting (taking pictures that is) the many couples that City Hall anticipates tomorrow. If it’s a bad decision, Tamu and I plan to register and we will ask you all to buy us gifts anyway.
