I won’t lie and say that I’m surprised Arnie vetoed the first ever gay marriage bill to make it to a US governor’s desk but I am still very disappointed. Arnie has chosen to over-rule the democratically elected representatives of California because he is afraid of the extreme right.

Interesting how people who claim to be strong proponents of democracy show their true colours when a decision goes against them. What is also interesting is the nice little U-turn the republicans have just done. When Mass. was forced to allow gay marriage by a court ruling Bush said it should not be up to courts to decide such important issues but up to the elected representatives of the people, now that the elected representatives of the people have tried to legislate for gay marriage the new republican line is that it should be a matter for the courts. Pity Americans seem to have too short of an attention span to see what their ‘government’ is at.

All in all yet antoher sad day for America, good-bye democracy, good-bye tolerance, good-bye equality.