Gay Marriage in California: Is it Good for Business?
UPDATE: Here's the California Supreme Court Opinion thanks to the American Constitutional Society Blog with Yale Law School Professor William N. Eskridge, Jr.'s short commentary.
The June issue of Harpers has a good article on the issue from a religious point of view in Turning Away from Jesus: Gay Rights and the War for the Episcopal Church by Garret Keizer, but it's not online yet.
There is a good 1996 article on the issue in Harpers here, however.
I must say there's something about the public debate that has always confused me. Because we live in a secular society, all "marriages" performed by the state are "civil unions." Only the churches are capable of blessing or sanctifying those unions.
But I'm not interested in jumping into the gay marriage debate other than to say I'm happy for my gay friends who would like to marry their domestic partners, lovers, help-meets; and, life companions.
What I'd like to do is to re-post an interview I conducted with one of my best friends who happens to be a gay rocket scientist and who is comfortably settled with his beloved companion -- also one of my husband's and my closest friends. Tony talks here about why diversity and tolerance in the workplace is not only good for the people in it, but good for the business that supports and empowers them.
Here's New York Times reporter Adam Liptak's coverage of the California Supreme Court opinion here.
That's all. Anyone debating the gay marriage thing can go back to it now.
I also cannot resist saying this in response to those who worry that the California Supreme Court's ruling is contrary to the will of the majority. That's the whole point of the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights and the similar right-affirming Articles of the California Constitution -- they provide protections for the minority against the "tyranny of the majority."
