At least that’s the official picture re: whether the Supreme Court will post its final decision on Proposition 8 and the estimated 18,000 same-gender marriages in California.

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On Tuesday, the “Joe.My.God.” [2] blog posted this photo supposedly from San Francisco’s Castro District that shows Police barricades being readied … for ? Was a Supreme Court decision about to be announced? This posting comes up slowly, by the way = it’s getting a lot of hits = there are a lot of people interested in the “rumor” that the Court is about to speak and/or a riot is about to erupt.

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But on Wednesday, the California Supreme Court’s own web site posted notice that no decisions would be coming down on Thursday, May 21. This screen has been corrected at least once during Wednesday. So it look as if we might know tomorrow that a ruling is coming down on Tuesday. If not Tuesday, then there are theoretically only two more dates left before June 5 for the Court to publish its opinion. (This is based on the Court’s own internal rules, so who knows if it might instead announce a delay?)

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Late yesterday, [5] Towleroad blog as suggesting that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom asked the Supremes to delay the decision so that it would not coincide with the 3oth anniversary of the White Night Riot. On May 21, 1979, gay San Franciscans became violent over the wimpy sentence given to Dan White for the cold-blooded murder of then-Mayor George Moscone and gay Supervisor Harvey Milk. God, has it been more than 30 years we’ve been publicly struggling for our civil rights?

In the meantime, New Hampshire [6] Governor John Lynch’s monkey wrench in the legislation, same-gender marriage in that state is delayed. The Senate took action to cave in to the Governor’s demands to make the bill ultra-safe for religious bigots to be exempted. The House demurred on Wednesday afternoon. According to the [7] 365Gay.com story:

The revisions approved earlier Wednesday in the Senate by a 14-10 vote would have made it clear that churches, church organizations and staff are protected from lawsuits if they refuse to permit same-sex marriages.

But when it went to the House in the afternoon, it was defeated by only two votes —188-186.

The House then voted 207-168 to ask the Senate to negotiate a compromise with the governor instead of killing the bill.

How long, O Lord? Any day now, but not today.

And in [8] a separate story also filed yesterday, it is speculated that the Obama administration’s campaign opposition to DOMA may be evaporating. The back story is that the Justice Department, under pressure to make sure Obama’s campaign pledge is upheld, has not weighed in yet on a federal lawsuit filed last March challenging [9] DOMA (Caution: this site is out of date, so don’t rely on it for anything but the most general information). It has until June 22 to respond either way. (As with the California Attorney General, the federal Justice Department is supposed to defend legislation, so Attorney General Eric Holder should be defending DOMA in the lawsuit.

I am, as they say, conflicted.  Torn between anger and worry, anguish and depression.  Auto-pilot activism and total nihilism. What to do, what to do? Justice delayed in justice denied, they say. Any day now, but not today.

—Pastor Dan Hooper, Los Angeles