The court decision is really exciting! I wasn't in the Castro the evening it came down, but I hear it was a great party, a wonderful moment of community. It's the kind of thing that warms my hippie little heart and makes me feel a part of a great big family.

But as I said in my subject line, I'm nervous. I know that the Religious Right are really good at getting out their voters, and they will play with people's homophobia to get this ammendment passed. I'm worried that their tactics--which I think are lowbrow and hurtful but are nonetheless effective--might work to get California voters to put discrimination in our constitution. Which would obviously just be a shame. I love California, and I love living in San Francisco where people mostly have open minds. It would be so sad to see us pass something so...backwards.

I can't build real love out of paper cuts and plastic. -Jenny Owen Youngs