not of this world

even though i believe society’s embrace of contraceptive sex (with no fault divorce no help either) has mortally wounded the case to preserve marriage as being exclusively between a man and a woman, this Washington state supreme court decision is still encouraging.

[for the majority, Judge Madsen] added that the judges should not dictate public policy. The law banning gay marriages may yet change, she said, but not “because five members of this court have dictated it.”

“We see no reason, however,” Justice Madsen added, “why the legislature or the people acting through the initiative process would be foreclosed from enacting a the right to marry to gay and lesbian couples in Washington.”

on a related note, it appears Massachusetts’ poster same sex marriage is on the rocks.