Does the California gay marriage ruling mean it’s time to reconsider ‘civil partnership’ terminology in the UK?
“Limiting the designation of marriage to a union ‘between a man and a woman’ is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute,” said California Chief Justice Ron George in his written opinion yesterday, as California’s top court ruled a state law banning marriage between same-sex couples as unconstitutional.
The state’s Supreme Court said the “right to form a family relationship” applied to all Californians regardless of sexuality. Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger previously vetoed laws passed by the state legislature to legalise gay marriage not once, but twice.
tags: ceremony, civil partnerships, comprehension, equality, gay marriage, inequality, love, marriage, parenting, partnerships, perception, rights, ritual, society, surrogacyIf cameras can warp ‘reality’
…isn’t it obvious we can do the same? At least some if not all of the time? And this can be a bad or a good thing. Allow me to explain…
The photo above was a simple experiment in long exposure with a moving hand. It’s the moon over Loch Ness, which, on the night the picture was taken, was incredibly bright. I love the way the light has been drawn out into ropes that swirl and dance in the sky. I’ve no idea why a splash of orange is evident, unless it too is a transformation of the moon on the camera’s memory card formed as my hand slowly moved around with the shutter depressed.
tags: mind, moon, perception, philosophy, reality
