The above image has been showing up a lot recently on my Facebook feed over the past several days. For those who don't know, The U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing arguments tomorrow regarding the constitutionality of California's 2008 Proposition 8, which amended that state's constitution to take away equal marriage rights that had previously been granted to its gay and lesbian residents. The following day, the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing arguments about the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act -- specifically Section 3 of DOMA, which prohibits the federal government to recognize the legal marriages of this country's gay and lesbian citizens.
I'm totally stressing out. It's not pretty.
My marriage rights are being decided by a handful of judges -- at least two of whom of notoriously anti-gay. Assuming everyone rules the way we assume they will rule, these two court cases will come down to the decision of one specific justice.
The audio from each hearing is expected to be released pretty quickly afterwards, so we will get to hear all of the arguments as well as all of the nitty gritty details. But I think I will be avoiding that experience. My nerves cannot take it.
My guess is that the decisions on these two cases won't be released until early summer 2013.