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The California state legislature passed a bill legislating marriage equality today. It’s the first time a state legislature has passed such a law. Connecticut’s state legislature passed civil unions into law earlier this year. Court-enforced civil unions were mandated in Vermont in 2000, while the Massachusetts State Supreme Court required marriage equality in 2003.

In California, the question now is whether Governor Schwarzenegger will sign or veto the marriage equality bill. While he has been silent on the matter, his representatives have indicated that the governator would prefer that the courts decide. Meanwhile christianists want the California voters to decide the matter by voting on two ballot measures in 2006. In Massachusetts, where the courts ruled on the matter, conservatives are now pushing legislation through to repeal marriage equality. It seems that christianists keep trying to pass the buck each time marriage equality receives support from a new governmental entity. But they are being inconsistent claiming in one state that it’s the voters responsibility, in another it’s the courts jurisdiction, and in yet others that it’s the legislature’s duty.

Courts have ruled and legislatures have spoken. It’s only a matter of time before voters also side in favor of marriage equality. What then? Who will the christianists claim has the right to decide this matter then? Their current strategy is an avoidance technique, and eventually anti-equality zealots will run out of places to hide their intolerance, prejudice, and hatred.