George Michael charged again; Anti-gay backtracking; Daniel Radcliffe talks nice; and Abe Lincoln for President

Now, George Michael is getting used to the attentions of the police, because he was recently caught again driving under the influence, and smashing into a shop with his car. At the same time he smashed into the headlines again, with another arrest. Like the site AfterElton.com says: “it seems he’s developed a fetisch for getting arrested.”

But George Michael isn’t the only one with a PR problem. Remember the ruckus last week over Judge Vaughn Walkers ruling that Californias Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage in the state, was unconstitutional? Today, as the temporary stay on same-sex wedding bells chiming all over the state was lifted, a couple of anti-gay personages were busy backtracking. One was the american conservative commentator Glen Beck and the other was the Australian senate candidate Wendy Francis.

Cause for celebrations all around, in other words. Which brings us over to more somber political news concerning one of the forefather of the present United States, Abraham Lincoln. If you’re in NewYork, and feel like celebrating in the spirit of it all, you can go and watch “Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party” which opens in New York.

And finally, Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame, talks nice about gay people in Out magazine as he is set to star in a new Broadway play called ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying‘, which will open in March next year.

Gay marriage around the world

California is a US state known for its earthquakes. One of them took place in the week that went by, but this time it was a legal earthquake. San Francisco didn’t fall into the sea.

I am of course talking about the ruling from Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker where he declared that the state’s ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional on equal protection grounds. That has got the opposition to gay marriage to throw a hizzy fit, to use a quaint expression of one of my internet friends. They are now seeking to have Mr Walker impeached.

I can understand why. In the 136-page ruling, Mr Walker demolished all the propaganda we have heard over these last decades with a clear and concise logic. We also note that the proponents for the ban failed to provide an adequate legal defence of the ban, calling only two witnesses who ended up contradicting each other, and who was ruled to be unreliable.

As overturning the ruling requires that the proponents demolish the judge’s findings, I can see why they would – after the utter annihilation of their rhetoric in the ruling – try to demolish the character of the judge instead.

But California is not the only place to fret about gay marriages. Catholic Mexico City has been in the news too today about the matter. The Mexican Supreme court ruled today that the city’s law permitting gay marriage was indeed constitutional.

One of the things in the ruling was the determination that civil unions, and thus indeed our civil partnerships, were second class arrangements. They were designed to make opposite sex-relationships superior to same-sex ones. I wish politicians on this side of the pond would take a leaf from that book, and have another look at our own laws. Why is it that our civil partnerships can’t be performed in a church? It is because they are second class arrangements meant to make heterosexual marriages superior to ours.