California legalizes gay marriage!
Yesterday, the California Supreme Court (almost entirely Republican-appointed) found that the state's constitution, as it already exists, must be interpreted as granting same-sex couples the right to marriages that are recognized and protected by the state.

Governator Arnold (whose autograph I've got on my UCLA diploma), who has previously vetoed two legislative attempts to legalize gay marriage, has said that he will respect and uphold the court's ruling, and furthermore that he will "not support an amendment to the constitution that would overturn this state Supreme Court ruling." This means that even a new ballot measure (like the one passed, to the shame and dismay of many, by 60% of the Californians who voted in 2000) would be vanishingly unlikely to revoke gay marriage, even if it managed to garner enough votes to pass (which I doubt it would, now in 2008). Finally, this ruling cannot be taken to federal courts, as it is a state matter. Thus: legal gay marriage in California is here to stay.

I can't rightly say how completely awesome this is.
Or how proud I am of my home state, and how happy I am for the joy and validation this brings to so many loving same-sex couples in California, and everywhere, for surely this will add irreversible momentum to the acceptance of gay marriage.
High fives all around!