SirJosephPorter, in your original post you referred to Republicans as a "braying mob".
I know with your linguistic skills you will come up with an explanation.
But am I wrong when I say that the DONKEY is the symbol of the DemocRATic Party? Am I wrong when I say that the sound usually assiciated with donkeys is BRAYING?
What does that have to with anything, Yukon? Democratic symbol is a donkey, that doesn’t mean Democrats behave like donkeys (well, maybe some of them do).
However, braying mob very accurately describes the far right Republican base. Anybody who dares criticize their God, their icon, the drug addict on loan from God, they pounce on him like sharks, like piranhas. The poor fellow is forced to grovel at the feet of the de facto Republican leader, Limbaugh; he has to abjectly beg his forgiveness.
No, I think braying mob describes the Republican base far more accurately than it describes any Democrat.
As to California Supreme Court decision, that was expected, I had heard it in many places that that is how the court was going to rule. This is comparable to the Dred Scott decision of the US Supreme Court, which declared that blacks are not human being. In one respect, this decision ruled that gays are not human being, do not deserve equal rights.
But then the struggle for civil rights is never a straight line, it is three step forward, two steps back. Both blacks and women had many setbacks I their struggle, it took decades for them to get equality (in the face of opposition by conservatives like you)
But gays are in it for the long haul, the younger generation supports gay marriage by a big margin (even in USA). It is only a matter of time before the decision is overturned (same as Dred Scott decision was overturned).
It may not happen in my lifetime, but as said, civil right struggle spans several decades. I am more than ever optimistic that eventually gay will get the right to marry in USA (I did not think so five years ago).