I love that he's a Reagan appointee too!

(Eh, I'm not running on much myself, so please forgive if the next bit doesn't come out sounding very kind...)

But sometimes I wonder.... seriously, why does the Bay Area always have to be the only knocking sense into this fucked up state? Why can't it be a judge in San Diego or some conservative town doing it ... because the nutjob section of republicans love to demonize us, it'd carry a lot more power if a judge down there had done it.

It's funny though, even every republican I knew voted no on that prop. There's a strong libertarian presence here too in the south bay/silicon valley though so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.

The really strange part looking back is that growing up I used to think I lived in such a hick conservative area, despite having the guy who was the first admitted atheist congressman (and I met him on a DC trip in HS and looking back, dude! it hadn't come out at the time, but def didn't hurt him much come elections)... even all the mormon friends I had in high school would go up to the city for the pride parade.

That was likely part of the original problem. People up here took it too much for granted. We see adoption adverts targeted specifically to gay couples on public transport, you forget there might be problems outside our little bubble. "Why would any Californian possibly vote against human rights, we're totally different from the rest of the US!!" ... not quite. Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington, D.C def have us beat... but with 10% of the population living here, imagine the precedent it would set!!