Democracy for Vancouver

When professed heterosexual, monogamous Christian men stop getting caught soliciting gay sex in restrooms and porn shops, then you can have a vote on who gets the right to marry.

On second thought, no. No one, least of all a bunch of tightassed homophobes, should have any say in who a person can love or marry:

A federal judge Friday blocked Oregon’s new domestic partnership law for gays and lesbians from taking effect next week, allowing opponents to continue their efforts to try to get voters to overturn the law.

The surprise ruling comes four days before the law would allow gay couples to gain most of the same legal benefits of marriage. Couples across Oregon were planning to show up at county offices Wednesday to register as partners.

J. and R., keep the gift. You’re married in everyone’s eyes but the state’s anyway. It’s a wedding delayed, not a wedding denied.